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THE 

HARRISBURG 

VISITORS' GUIDE, 

18 7 6, 



FOR THE USE OF 



STRANGERS VISITING THE CITY, 



CONTAINING A 



Descriptive ''Tour of the City and Capitol Buildings/' 
distinctly denoting prominent objects of interest in 
the Capital City of Pennsylvania, and how to 
see them ; together with "Historical Narra- 
tives/' State, county and city official direc- 
tory, statistics, societies, and other 
valuable information. 



By J. R. OR WIG, 

ASSISTANT STATE LIBEABIAN. 










HARRISBURG: 

PATRIOT PUBLISHING COMPANT. 
1876. 



NOTE TO ADVERTISERS 



The various Industries, Trades and Professions are 
designed to be represented in the advertising pages. 
This will constitute a main feature in subsequent editions, 
when every facility will be afforded advertisers for the 
most elaborate display. The nature and permanency of 
the work, the class of readers reached by sales on the 
trains, at news stands, at hotels and by local agents, and 
the low price and consequent large circulation, render 
the Harrisburg Visitors' Guide a first class advertising 
medium. For terms address the publisher. 

J. E. ORWIG, 

Harrisburg, Pa. 



Entered, according to act of Congress, in the year 1876, by 

J. R. ORWIG. 
In the OflSice of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. 



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IJS'DEX. 



22 



10,76 



61 

55 

53,71 



Academy, Harrisburg 

Adams Express 

Adjutant Greneral's Department 

Allison's Hill 

American Mechanics 

Arsenal, State 

Assembly, meeting of 

Attorney GeneraP s Department 10, 74 

Auditor General's Department 10,74 

Baltimore, distance to 79 

Banks 55 

Bergner, Cliarles H 78 

Bethel church 

Board i f Charities 

Bolton's hotel 

Boyd's residence 

Brant' s hall 

Brant's residence 

Bridges ■.- 

Buckshot war 

Buffalo in Harrisburg 

Bureau of statistics 



10,78 
26 



10, 



23 

48 

42 

11,75 



Cameron, Hon. Simon 23 

Cameron, Hon. J. D 22 

Canals 53 

Cannon, captured 9 

Capitol, buildings 10, 11 

corner stone 10 

first occupied 45 

to Harrisburg 44 

Cars, street 6 

Catholic church, St. Patrick's 20 

German 6 

Cemeteries 56 

Charities, board of ^ 10,78 

Chief of police 79 

Churches— German Catholic 6 

Bethel 7 

Lutherans 7 

Pine Street Presbvterian 8 

Grace Methodist Episcopal 20 

Episcopal 22 

Market Square Presbyterian 25 

St. Patrick's 20 

Paxton 57 ! 

CityCouncil 79 j 

City Grays 57 

Clerks, in departments 73 I 

Executive 73' 

State 73 

Auditor General 74 

Treasury 75 | 

Attorney General 74: 

Adjutant General 76 1 

School 76 j 

Insurance 77 

Internal Affairs 74 

Bureau of Statistics 75 

Cotton mill - 21 

Counties of State 50 

population of, 1870 50 

organized 50 

squai-e miles 50 

county towns 50 

Court house 26 

Dauphin county, boroughs in 47 

ofacers of 78 

extent of 50 

organ ized 41, 46, 50 

Historical society 57 

Departments, heads of 71 



Depots 3 

Directory, official 7! 

Distances, tablp> of 79.S'> 

Dome of Capitol, view from \1 

Eagle WORKS 48 

Eas't Hairisliurg 6 

Elections, in State 53.68 

countv 68,69 

city 70 

Executive mansion 22 

Fever in Harrisbu'^o 42 

Fire engine of Hope cnnipiuy 21 

Fishery comuiissioaei s 78 

Flag room . 16 

Fort Washington 22 

Front street '-2 

Geological Survey 7>; 

Getty-l.urg, battle df 13 

distance to 22 

Governor 66 

residence of 22 

chamber nf, at eapitol 18 

Governors, list oP 64 

Grace Methodist Episconal church. . . . 20 

Grave of John Harris, Jr 4') 

Sr 33 

(irays, City 57 

Harrisburg 27 

Harris. John. Sr 28 

burning of .- . . . 29 

Jr 33 

Harris mansion 23 

Harris. George W 24,25 

Harris Park 24 

Historical Narrative 27 

Historical society 57 

Hospital, city 58 

Ice flood 41 

ludependi-nce island 21 

Indian signatures 19 

Insane asylum 9 

Insurance Department 10. 77 

Internal Affairs Department K). 74 

Jail 8,26 

Jones Hnuse 26 

KALMI A CEMRTERY 56 

Keystone Hotel 20 

Knights of Pythias 63 

Latitude OF Harrisburg 51 

Legislative Record 78 

Legislature, meeting of 53,71 

Liiirary, State 13,77 

Lochiel Hotel 7 

ironworks 48 

Lodges 60 

M'Kean, Chief-Justice 43 

Market house 26 

Masonic Hall 7 

JNlayor ' s office 7 

Mayor, election > f 70 

Mt. Kalmia cemetery 56 

Monuments 9,20 

Morris, Robert, autograph of 19 

Mulberry Tree 24, 30 



IV 



INDEX. 



Page 

NTarrative. Historical 27 

N aticTial guard 57,77 

Numbers of houses 4,59 

Odd Fellows eo 

Official directory 71 

Oldest book u Library 14 

()iiinii)usline 6 

0))i-ra House 7 

Oriaiual Cliarter of Pennsylvania 19 

Orphan soldiers, department of 76 

Pardons, board of 73 

Park— Capitol 8,40 

Harris 24 

Superintendent of 77 

Passenger railway 6 

Patriot, Daily 8 

Paxton cliurcli 57 

Paxton Rangers 35 

Penn, William 54 

Pennsylvania 51 

Philadelphia, distance to 80 

Pine Street church 8 

Pittsburg, distance to 80 

Police, Chief of 79 

Population of States 50 

of counties 50 

of city 48 

Portraits of governors 18 

Post office 7 

Presidents of United States 67 

Prison, County 8 

Public Instruction, Department of — 10 

clerks in 76 

Superintendent of 72 

Public schools in city 59 

Pumpkin flood 41 

Railroads, Pennsylvania 53 

Philadelphia and Heading 53 

Reading railroad depot 3 

express 26 

Record, Legislative 78 

Register for visitors 13 



Page, 

Relics— captured cannon 

in room Deputy Secretary of State, 19 

flag room 16 

Internal Affairs Department 11 

State Library 13 

Salaries of State Officers 53 

School D-T-partment 10,76 

Schools, public 59 

Secretary of Commonwealth 71 

Secret societies 60 

"Shinplasters" 19 

Societies 60 

Soldiers'' Orplian Denartment 76 

State Library 13,77 

Statistics, Bureau of 10,75 

Steelworks 48 

St. Patrick's church 20 

Street cars 6 

Streets 4,5 

Telegraph, Daily 7 

Telescope of 1768 14 

Temperance societies 62 

The route for strangers 4 

Tour of the Buildings- 11 

Tour OF THE CiTT 6,20 

Traitors ot the Revolution, list of 11 

Travel in 1797 43 

United States Senators 71 

UnitedStates Hotel 6 

Vice Presidents, list of 67 

Vote for Governor 69 

President 68 

Mayor 70 

Washington City, distance to 80 

Washington, Fort 22 

Washington, General, in Harrisburg, 25 

Water woj-ks 21 

Western Union Telegraph 7 

Winebrenner, John 7 

Y. M. C. A., rooms of 7 



PREFACE. 



OBSERVING that there existed a great want, on the 
part of strangers yisitmg Harrisbiirg, of some simple, 
.practical and convenient book, that would explain the lo- 
cality and means of access to the leading points of interest 
in 'the Capital City of Pennsylvania, and especially to the 
Public Buildings and Park, I have compiled this little vol- 
ume for publication. It is sent forth on its mission in the 
hope that it may prove helpful and useful to citizens and 
to the strangers within our gates. » 

The book will be revised annually, and enlarged in scope 
^nd improved as the public demands may justify. The edi- 
tor will be grateful for any corrections or suggestions. 

J. R. ORWIG. 
Haerisburg, 1876. 



TO THE EEADBK. 



More than one hundred passenger trains arrive and depart 
from Harrisburg daily. Incident to this immense .travel thou- 
sands of strangers are compelled to remain a limited time ; while 
many others, it is natural to presume, voluntarily remain to 
take a "bird eye view^' of the Capital of Pennsylvania. Thus, 
probably, hundreds of thousands are, annually, " strangers 
within our gates. '^ To this class, especially, ''The Route,'' 
and the " Tour of the City,'' and the " Tour of the Buildings,'' 
in the following pages, are commended, while the '' Historical 
Narratives" will be alike valuable to the visitor and the citizen, 

A few preliminary observations will be sufficient to enable 
any one, without other guide, to see, in a promenade of an 
hour or two — which may be indefinitely extended — the most 
prominent objects of interest in Harrisburg. 

All visitors by railroad, by whatever route ticketed, are 
landed at the great railway centre on Market and Canal streets, 
in or about one of the two Union depots of the great rival 
lines of the Pennsylvania railroad company and the Philadel- 
phia and Reading company, and their connections. 

The depots face each other, on opposite sides of Market 
street, with a large open space between them for omnibuses, 
carriages, &c. The railroad tracks all run north and south, 
through or by the depots. The streets of the city cross each 
other generally at right angles. Except along the railroad 
tracks — which do not run quite parallel with the streets of the 
city — there are no irregular places to confuse the stranger, so 
that having entered upon "The Route," on Market street, 
with a copy of the Guide, the visitor may easily pursue the 
line we have indicated, and see with composure, and doubtless 
with gratification, the chief attractions of the Capital Cit}'". 



Baggage, proiDerly checked, may be safely entrusted to the 
baggage dei^artments at the depot, or may be checked at one 
of the hotels near by. 

Market street, it should be observed, is the centre of the 
system for numbering houses, increasing both north and south, 
and from the Susquehanna river eastward, one hundred being 
allotted to a square. 

The streets crossing Market at right angles are named nu- 
merically, beginning at the river, Front, Second, &c., as high 
as Nineteenth street in East Harrisburg. The narrow avenues 
or alleys bear distinctive names, running both north and south, 
so also the regular streets running parallel with Market. 

'^^ See City Directory, for any street or names and resi- 
dence of citizens, kept at all public places. 

THE KOUTE. 

From depots, west, up Market street to Third street — three 
squares. 

To the right, up North Third street to Walnut street — one 
square. 

Enter the Capitol Park, corner Third and Walnut streets. 

Leave the Park immediately in front of the main building, 
at West State street — three squares north from Walnut street. 

West, out State street to Second street — one square. 

To the right, up Second street to North street — one square. 

To the left, west, out North street to Front street — one 
square. 

To the left, down Front street to Washington avenue — seven 
squares. 

To the left, out Washington avenue to South Second street 
— one square. 

To the left, up Second street to Market street — three squares. 

To the right, down Market street to depots — four squares ; 
total distance twenty-five squares. 



Names of streets of Harrishurg running emt and west, with 
• numhers of houses. 



NORTH OF 3IARKET STREET. 


SOUTH OF 3IARKET STREET. 


House 
number. 


i 

Xame of Street. 


House 
number. 


i 

1 Xame of Street. 

1 


1.. 


: Market. 


1.. 


Market. 


100.. 


' Walnut. 


100.. 


Chestnut. 


200.. 


' Locust. 


200.. 


Mulberry. 


800.. 


Pine- 


300.. 


1 Washington avenue. 


400.. 


South. 


400.. 


j Tine. 


500.. 


State. i 


500.. 


Tuscarora. 


600.. 


Liberty. | 


600.. 


Nagle. 
Hanna. 


700.. 


North. 


700.. 


800.. 


Briggs. 


800.. 


Dock. 


900.. 


Forster. 






1000.. 


Boas. ! 






1100.. 


Herr. ; 






1200.. 


Verbeke, (or Broad.); 
Calder. i 






1300.. 






1400.. 


Reily. 






1500-- 


Harris. [' 






•1600.. 


Hamilton. 






1700.. 


Kelker. \ 






1800.. 


Muench. |i 






1900.. 


Pefler. S| 


■ 




2000.. 


Maclay. i; 







Streets running north and south are named numerically, be- 
ginning at the river, and their numbers indicate their location. 



A TOUE OF THE CITY. 



ON MARKET STREET. 

Emerging from either of the two great depots, with a copy 
of the Guide as a Chaperon, the visitor will enter upon " The 
Tour of the city." The large open space between the depots 
is the foot of Market street, and is on the eastern limit of the 
built up portion of the city, (geographically, however, about 
the centre of the present limits.) The streets of the city run 
not quite parallel with the points of the compass, but for con- 
venience they are so considered in the directions contained in 
the Guide. The railroad tracks at this converging point run 
north and south, and Market street crosses them in an east 
and west course. 

It may not be inappropriate to note here that Calder's line 
of omnibuses are always in waiting, at all trains, day and 
night, and will convey passengers, with baggage, to any part 
of the city — fare twenty-five cents. Also, that the City Passen- 
ger Eailwaj^'s tracks extend to the railroad depots on Market 
street, carrying passengers to northern and southern extremi- 
ties of the city, or to within a few squares, or convenient walk- 
ing, distance, of all the prominent places enumerated in the 
Guide — fare six cents. 

Having reached Market street, the large hotel immediately 
before you is the United States, and its prominence affords a 
most convenient rendezvous, or place of beginning, for the 
tourist, (the United States is a first class hotel, $3 00 per day.) 
A glance eastward, before leaving this locality, presents a 
view of East Harrisburg, or ''Allison's Hill," with Brant's 
private residence, built in the style of the Elizabethan period, 
and the massive columnar stone edifice of the Catholic convent, 
and St. Geneveves' Academy, as the most prominent features. 
Facing towards the city, you look upon the principal business 
street of Harrisburg — Market street — six squares to the Sus- 
quehanna, and singularly enough up street to the river. 

Proceeding westward to the first street crossing Market, we 
see on our right the abrupt angle of Fifth street, and a full 
view of the German Catholic church. Looking southward the 



street indicates the angle formed by the railroads and the 
streets, and is the southern terminus of Fifth street. On 
Fourth street, on looking to your left, half a square south, is 
the stately spire of the First Lutheran church, 175 feet high, 
Trith its chime of bells, the only chimes in the city. This 
church contains one of the finest auditoriums in the city. 
Looking northward, to youy right, we obtain a glimpse of the 
dome of the Capitol, and the Capitol park. The Bethel, church 
of God, half a square distant, was once the charge of the dis- 
tinguished Rev. John Winebrenner, after whom the denomi- 
nation is yet sometimes called the Winebrennarians. The 
Adam's Express office is on the north-west corner of Fourth 
and Market. No. 333 is the State Bank. The modest and 
rather dilapidated building at No. 314 is the present post 
office, and will likely be until the new United States build- 
ings are completed, to be erected at Third and Walnut 
streets. The large hotel now in view on the south-west cor- 
ner of Market and Third is the Lochiel, a first class house, 
$3 00 per day, and during a session of the State Legislature 
is the headquarters of Republican statesmen and politicians. 
The imposing six-story brick edifice just beyond, on Third 
street, is the Benjamin Singerly Printing House. The Mslj- 
or's office is in the rear of the Lochiel hotel. 

The prospect from this point is that of the business centre 
of the city. The white marble front, on the north-east corner, 
is the City Bank, and the fine edifice on north-west corner is 
the Daily Telegraph building, a first class printing establish- 
ment, well worth a visit. The Telegrajjh is published daily, 
every afternoon, and weekly. It is the State organ of the Re- 
publican party. On North Third street,' leaving Market 
street, the visitor will turn northward one square to Capitol 
Park. 

OX NORTH THIRD STREET. 

Number 11 North Third street is the office of the Western 
Union telegraph company. At No. 26, opposite side, are the 
rooms of the Young Men's Christian Association, open to visi- 
tors, and contain a public library. The imposing edifice 
south-east corner Third and Walnut streets is the Masonic 
Hall and Opera House, 



Stopping briefly to note objects of prominence before enter- 
ing the Park, the visitors will see, looking up Third street im- 
mediately before him, the State Capital Hotel, and near by the- 
towering brick building of the Patriot Publishing Company. 
This is the site chosen for the new Government building, which 
will be a magnificent structure. The Patriot is published daily, 
morning and evening, and weekly. It is the State organ of 
the Democratic party. The handsome private residence of 
Mr. P. K. Boyd is just beyond, and still farther up Third 
street, on the corner of Pine street, is the attractive spire of 
the Pine Street Presbyterian Church. This beautiful edifice- 
is constructed of blue limestone, is of the most artistic design; 
Gothic architecture, and contains one of the finest auditoriums. 
and Sabbath school rooms in the State. Looking west, to our 
left, out Walnut street, near by, in striking contrast, are the- 
frowning walls of the Dauphin County Prison, a castellated 
structure of granite stone, two stories, with an octagonal 
tower, flanked by two wing walls, which enclose the prison 
proper. The prison contains about forty cells and. cost forty 
thousand dollars. 

THE CAPITOL PAKK. 

We now enter the Capitol Park. The grounds are charming. 
At all favorable seasons they are a common resort for men,, 
women and children. The green sward is kept closely shorn, 
and the trees are stately, various, rare and oramental, with 
shrubbery and flowers, and the fountains impart an exquisite 
freshness most exhilarating to the traveller. The Park, wheii! 
clothed in snow and ice, and lit up by a winter's sun, as it fre- 
quently is, forms a scene fairly like and indescribably grand. 
There are about thirteen acres, enclosed with a neat and sub-' 
stantial iron fence, which cost about $30,000. The grounds 
are gently sloping from the centre, and the Capitol Buildings 
are on the summit. The site is most admirably adapted for 
its use, and was set apart for this purpose before Harrisburg 
was a city, and before it was chosen as the location for the 
capital of the State, This was the act of John Harris, tha^ 
clear headed and public-spirited pioneer and patriot. Leaving 
the board walk near by the monument erected to the Mexican^ 



9 

soldiers, from several points, passing to the rigiit a short dis- 
tance, the visitors obtain a fine prospect of East Harrisbnrg and 
the reservoir, and to the left the site of Mt. Kalma Cemetery and 
the tower of the new State Arsenal, formerly located near the 
spot where the visitor is now standing. The dome of the State 
Insane Asylum, of the Middle district, is seen in the distance. 
The beautiful monument was erected in 1868, from a design 
by Mr. Hamilton Alricks, Jr., of Harrisburg, at a cost of about 
$10,000. It is one hundred and five feet high. The sub-base 
is of granite, with a base proper of ten feet square and but- 
tresses at each corner surmounted by eagles. The face of 
the sides are panelled and contain the names of the different 
battles of the Mexican war. The Corinthian column is seven- 
ty-six feet high, of Maryland marble, surmounted by a statue 
of Victory, which is of fine Italian marble and was executed 
in Rome for this monument. The enclosure surrounding the 
monument is constructed of muskets used in the service by the 
United States soldiers in Mexico. 

In front of the monument, ''like warriors taking their rest,'' 
lie specimens of artillery, trophies of the Mexican war, and 
several others, th-e generous gift of General Lafayette. The 
Mexican guns, one a six and the other an eighteen pounder, 
were captured at Cerra Gorda. The larger one was manufac- 
tured in England in 1824, and contains the following inscrip- 
tion : "Captured at Cerra Gorda, April 18, 184t, by the Amer- 
ican Army under Major General Scott. Presented to the 
State of Pennsylvania by Major General Patterson. '^ The 
smaller one was cast in Mexico, and contains on the breach the 
inscription ''El Pegaso," (a winged horse, ) in raised letters, and 
bears the same inscription as the former. The other brass pieces 
were brought to this country in the fleet of Count D'Estang 
and were presented to the Continental Congress by General La- 
fayette . They are highly ornamented , bearing in their polished 
surface and exquisite carving, evidences uf superior workman- 
ship and Parisian taste. Their handles are carved to represent 
two dolphins, with bodies raised in centre. Encircling the 
breach of one of them is the inscription, "A. Doray, Par. Ber- 
ringer, 1756.'^ On the middle of the top surface is a plate upon 
which the figures, a sun, a crov/n, cannon and flags are grace- 



10 

fully combined, crowned b}- the words, ''Nee pluribus impar," 
(not an unequal match for numbers,) while on the other, bear- 
ing the French oriliamme, a bunch of lilies with spearpoints 
at the edge, has beneath it, half wreathing the muzzle, the 
stranglj significant warning, "Ultima ratio Regnum,'' (the 
last argument of kings.) Both letters and figuring are in 
bas relief, and for the work of more'than a century ago, are 
specimens of admirable skill. These have never "burnt pow- 
der'', since here, except on a single occasion, when General 
Lafayette visited Harrisburg in 1824,. when they were used 
to fire the salute.. 

Passing towards the buildings, and surrounding them, the 
labyrinth of walks, carriage ways, fountains, flowers, shrub- 
bery, evergreens, etc., justly excite the admiration of all ob- 
servers. 

The corner stone of the Capitol was laid at twelve o'clock, 
Monday, May, 31, 1819, by Governor Findley, Stephen Hill, 
architect and contractor, William Smith, stone cutter, and Val- 
entine Kergen and Samuel White, masons, in the presence of 
the commissioners and a large concourse of citizens : and was 
followed by a salute. 

The first, or most southern building, is the Department of 
Internal Affairs, including former Departments of the Surveyor 
General, and the Bureau of Statistics. The second, or main 
building, contains the Legislative Halls — Senate and House — 
Committee rooms, the State Library, Lieutenant Governor's 
room, the Flag room, Adjutant General's Department, In- 
surance Deparment, Attorney General's room. School Depart- 
ment and the rooms of the Board of Charities. The third, or 
most northern building, contains the Auditor General and State 
Treasury Departments, on the first floor, and the Executive 
Chamber and State Departments on the second floor. 

Visitors who propose making the tour of the city only, in 
the limited tVne, will of necessit3^ omit the ''tour of the build- 
ings" and resurne "The Route'' from the front of the main 
building. 



11 
TOUE OF THE BUILDIJS^GS. 



The CapitoljbuildiDgs and departments are always open to 
visitors during business hours, and the Llessenger in each 
department may be freely depended upon as an attentive 
<iliaperon for his department. 

We begin the tour in the order enum.erated, and enter first 
the Department of Internal Affairs. The main entrance is to 
the south, towards the Mexican monument. The building 
was formerly the Land Department, but has been greatly 
enlarged, and is sixty-two feet by ninety-two feet. The front 
is ornamented by a large Ionic facade with pediment and 
-columns. The doorway enters into a large vestibule, twenty 
by twenty-two feet, which has a wide and handsome walnut 
stair case and balustrade leading to the second stor3^ The 
floor of the vestibule is of black and^ white marble tiles. On 
the right, as you enter, is the private office of the Secretary, 
handsomely furnished with all the modern conveniences at- 
tached. . Immeciiately facing the vestibule is the entrance to 
the principal office. Before entering, however, we will ascend 
the stairway to the second floor, occupied by the Supreme 
Court on the right, and by the Bureau of Statistics on the left, 
both very fine rooms. Retracing our steps to the first floor, 
we enter the principal office of the departmqnt, which is 
thirty-fiv^e b3^ forty-two feet, and fitted up with counters and 
large iron and walnut casing for books, papers, &c. On in- 
quiry, you may be shown, to your right, into the office of the 
Chief Clerk, at the east end of thB building, twenty by thirty- 
four feet, also elegantly furnished, and contains the library of 
the office. Passing out and through the principal office we 
enter the general office, which completes the tour of this build- 
ing. There are many attractions to be seen in this depart- 
ment among the mass of land warrants, man}^ over a century 
old, massive tomes containing quaint specimens of chirog- 
raphy, as unique as they are beautiful. There are deeds of 
transfer from the brothers Penn and their illustrious cotempc- 
raries, exhibiting their autographs. A large book contains 
the names of persons proscribed as traitors during the Revo- 
lution. An onscinal letter from William Penn directed " to the 



12 

Emperor of Canada.'^ Tv^o blocks of wood, beach and hem- 
lock, were once produced as mute witnesses in an important 
land trial, having been so cat as to exhibit their annual rings, 
and furnished the incontestable evidence required. We now 
take our exit from the west door, direct from this room, (whicli 
was formerly the front,) and proceed to the second or main 
building. 

The Capitol, or main building, is T shaped, one hundred and 
eighty feet front by eighty, with an extension of one hundred 
and five feet by fifty-four, three stories high, including the 
basement. The main entrance is by a large circular portico, 
the whole height of the building, sustained by six Ionic 
columns of red sandstone, painted white, four feet in diameter 
and thirty-six feet high. From the floor to the top of the cor- 
nice the distance is forty-six feet, and the whole height of the 
front is fifty and one-half feet, from the top of the cornice to 
the top of the dome it is fifty-seven and one-half feet, making 
the whole height one hundred and eight feet. We enter into 
the vestibule, wdiich is elliptical," having on its longest axis 
forty feet, and on its shorter thirty four feet, covered with 
various colored tile. Eight doors open into it on each floor. 
Three on the right conduct to the Hall of the House of Repre- 
sentatives and its galleries, and three on the left to the Senate 
Chamber and its galleries. The Senate Chamber is seventy- 
five by fifty-seven feet, and twenty-one feet high, arranged for 
the accommodation of fifty Senators. The Hall of the House 
of Representatives, originally the same size as the Senate 
Chamber, has recently been enlarged to accommodate the 
enlarged representation under the new Constitution of 18t4, 
"which increased the membership from one hundred to two 
hundred and one. The post-ofSce and cloak rooms are on the 
right and to the rear of the Speaker's chair, and the private 
room of the Speaker and the Transcribing Clerks rooms on the 
left, with a Reporter's gallery above. The floors of both 
chambers are covered with fine Brussels carpeting, and the 
windows are elegantly upholstered with damask, costing 
about one thousand dollars per window. The walls and ceil- 
ings are frescoed in the most artistic style, as is the Rotunda 
to the vaulted ceiling of the dome, giving the whole an appear- 



•ance of sumptuousness rarely excelled in more modern legis- 
lative halls. 

THE STATE LIBRAEY. 

We now pass from the rotunda through the large door or 
archway to the double flight of circular stairs, to the second 
story. The stairways unite at the first landing, immediately 
in front of the charming room of the State Library. This is 
open to visitors during library hours, indicated on the door. 
The dimensions of the room are 102 by 54 feet, and 24| feet 
high. A . gallery sustained by sixteen Corinthian pillars, 
twelve feet high, extends around the room. The same num- 
ber of pillars corresponding with those on the first floor, ex- 
tend from the gallery to the ceiling. The total length of the 
gallery is 312 feet, and contains 2,808 square .feet of book 
shelving. The sixteen divisions of wall cases, on the first 
floor, contain 1,560 square feet of shelving, afi^ording a capa- 
city of 35,000 volumes. The wide gallery and the space be- 
hind the columns on the first floor are designed to be filled 
with alcoves, sufficient to accommodate 100,000 volumes. The 
ceiling, with its centre skylight, imparts to the room an air of 
imposing grandeur, bringing out its architectural effects in 
beautiful harmony, and displaying its mechanical finish in its 
most attractive forms. On the brackets attached to the col- 
umns are the plaster busts of Yenus, Minerva, Jupiter, Da- 
cian Slave or Gladiator, Demosthenese, Mars, the Infant Her- 
cules, Bacchus and one of Chief Justice Gibson, of Pennsyl- 
vania. Directly in the centre of the room stands a handsome 
hexagon structure, of well polished walnut, surmounted by a 
full length statue of Minerva, imported from Rome, an exact 
pattern of the one in the famous Giustinian Gallery. 

A visitors' register is kept here, and visitors are expected 
to register their names. The room is heated from the base- 
ment by Gold's patent heaters. The Library is lighted by 
fourteen chandeliers of six burners each, and by sixteen pillar 
lights of three burners each on the gallery, making the whole 
number of gas burners 134. The spiral stairways to the gal- 
lery form perfect circles, with a radius of four feet, and are 
esteemed masterpieces of workmanship. Among the pictures 
are Wenderoth's battle of Gettysburg, (not the property of the 



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State, and likely to be removed.) Another, interesting for its 
local and historic associations, records that startling event in 
the life of John Harris, the father of the founder of Harris- 
burg, who was about being burned for refusing '*lum,'' or 
rum, to the Indians, but was rescued by the timely arrival of 
friendly Indians from the villages on the opposite shores. A. 
small marble eagle, presented to the State by Com. J. D. El" 
liott, of the TJ. S. Navy, represents a specimen of marble from 
the ruins of Alexandria, Egypt, It was carved on the voyage 
by a common soldier. Two small portraits represent Colum- 
bus and Americus Yespucius, and are the work of a cele- 
brated artist of Florence, Italy. They are very fine paintings,, 
and said to be faithful copies of the very few portraits ever 
taken of those distinguished personages. These were also the: 
gift of Commodore Elliott. A reflecting telescope bears the 
following on a card attached : '' This instrument was pur" 
chased in Lojidon, in 1768, for the Provisional Assembly of 
Penna., by Benjamin Franklin, for 100 pounds sterling. It was- 
used at Philadelphia in 1769 to observe the transit of venus 
over the sun's disc — the first observation of that phenomenon, 
made on the western Hemisphere. The instrument was sub- 
sequently used by the commissioners appointed to survey the 
boundary lines between Pennsylvania and the States of Mary- 
land, Virginia and New York.'^ 

Among the thousands of volumes of choice liturature are 
many rare books; also, among which are.Audaboh's Quadru- 
peds, Boydell's Shakesperian Illustrations, the complete works 
of Seneca, &c. The latter is the oldest book in the Library. 
It was printed in 1503. Many others were printed in the Six- 
teenth century. The furniture consists of sofas, chairs, desks, 
tables, &c., and the floors are covered with heavy Brussels 
carpet. 

The first record we have of the Library is by the Supreme 
Executive Council, in 1777, when it was directed to be moved 
to Easton, Northampton county, for safe keeping, so that it 
has a place in the annals of o-ur revolutionary struggle. And 
as it shared the dangers which crowded the path of the infant 
Kepublic, so was it placed in jeopardy when the full grown 
giant was compelled to contend within itself for its own life.. 



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On the 26th of June, 1863, a few days prior to the battle pf 
Gettysburg, when it was thought that a rebel army was likely 
to reach Harrisburg, the entire Library was conveyed by cars 
to Philadelphia, finding- security, where in 17 TT it was removed 
in order to be secure from the British. Many of these origi- 
nal volumes still occupy honorable positions on the shelves. 

After the adoption of the first Constitution in 1T90, the Sen- 
ate and the House, each for themselves, assumed to main- 
tain a Library, by which system there were three Libraries. 
But in 1816 they were consolidated and placed under one Li- 
brarian chosen annually. In 1829 the first catalogue was 
printed, when there were only 4,838 volumes accounted for. 
The second catalogue was printed in 1845, when there were 
11,577 volumes. In 1854 there were said to be 13,000 vol- 
umes. The Library was at this time placed under a Librarian, 
"to be appointed by the Governor, for a term of three years. 
In 1859 there were 21,923 volumes, and jn 1872, by an actual 
count by the Librarian, there were 27,629 volumes. The Li- 
brary is now conducted by the Librarian and an Assistant, and 
contains about 32,000 volumes. It is a reference library ex- 
clusively, free to all, but no books are by law permitted to be 
issued save only to State officials or members of the Legisla- 
ture in their official capacity. Visitors are fully accorded the 
privilege of viewing the Library throughout. It is maintained 
by direct appropriations from the State Treasury, and the 
books are all purchased by the Librarian, except such as are 
obtained by exchange or that may be jDresented by friends or 
authors. ' 

Leaving this department, we ascend to the main hall, of the 
second floor by a short flight of stairs, where the vestibule has 
a circular opening, with a railing surrounding it, through which 
may be seen the openings of the several stories to the ceiling, 
and through that to the interior of the dome with its vaulted 
roof. A capacious hall leads from this vestibule to both ends 
of the building ; communicating with the several department 
offices, etc. The first room on the left is the private room of 
the Lieutenant Governor, directly opposite is the Insurance 
Department, farther on is the Adjutant General's Department 
and the Flag room. This latter is a most interesting resort 
and should be visited. 



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THE FLAG EOOM. 

The flag room was fitted up by authority of the Legislature 
in 1867, for the safe keeping and exhibition of the Pennsylva- 
nia State flagS; used by the different regimental organizations 
that participated in the war for the Union from 1861 to 1865, 
and representing 387,284 men, exclusive of the militia 
called out for brief terms. A neat plate indicates the number 
of the regiment to which the flag belonged. They are taste- 
fully displayed from two large pedestals in the centre of the 
room, and from brackets extended across the windows, eight 
half brackets on the walls and from quarter brackets inserted 
in the corners, thus forming a continous circuit of the room. 
The flags are inserted in sockets suspended in almost per- 
pendicular positions, thus displaying them to good advantage. 
They are nearly all pierced with bullets or perforated and torn 
with shot and shell, and faded and worn through long service 
and on many hotly contested battlefields ; each with its mute 
eloquence telling its own story of trial and triumph. Some 
are only remnants of silken shreds, and all are just as they 
were returned to the State at the close of the rebellion. A 
number of the flags contain cards, explanatory of some special 
historic interest. The 150th has the following : 

^'War Department, Adjutant General's Office, | 
Washington, D. C, Oct. 25, 1869. j 

'^To the Adjutant General of Pennsylvania : 

''Sir : — I am instructed by the President to send herewith the 
flag of the One Hundred and Fiftieth Regiment Pennsylvania 
Volunteers, said to have been captured at Gettysburg, and re- 
captured in the baggage of Jeff. Davis. Please acknowledge 
its receipt. 

"Very respectfully, 

■ /'E. D. TOWNSEND, 

"Adjutant General/' 
The flag was taken in Gettysburg, under the following cir- 
cumstances. It was on the evening of the first day, all the 
color guard were killed, the last being Corporal Joseph Gute- 
lius, (of Mifflinburg, Union county.) When surrounded, and 
•almost alone, he was commanded to surrender the flag- His 



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mute reply was to enfold it in his arms, and he was instantly 
shot dead through its silken folds. His grave is No. 11, Sec- 
tion A, Pennsylvania Division, National Cemetery, Gettys- 
burg. 

The Fifty-first — two flags — were those belonging to the 
regiment formerly commanded by Governar Hartranft. The 
Twenty-eighth— throe flags— were those of Governor Geary's 
regiment, but space forbids even a cursive history of many 
others worthy of note in this interesting collection. (The 
room, if closed, may be seen by inquiry at the door just oppo- 
site, where the keys are kept.) 

The remaining rooms on this floor are at the opposite end of 
the hall and are the offices of the Attorney General, Board of 
Charities and the School Department. 

From the second story another double circular flight of stairs 
conduct to the third story. The j^rs^ door on the right leads 
to the dome and the others to the attics. The ascent is safe 
and easy. The view from the dome is grand. A lady whose 
contributions to the newspapers have been much admired for 
their vigor and piquancy, sometime ago thus described the 
scene : ''Upon reaching the dome, and taking a view from its 
secure but elevated height, we felt that our visit would have 
been as nothing had we missed the magnificent panorama by 
which we were surrounded. I would but mislead your imagi- 
nation by attempting to convey to you an impression of the 
scenic beauty which for awhile almost bewildered me ; but 
think, if you can, of a vast girda of far oft" misty blue hills, 
faintly defined upon the horizon ; against them, to the north and 
west, put rows of towering but withal gently sloping moun- 
tains ; purple, black or darkly blue, just as each drifting cloud 
shadows them ; within this inner zone scatter the lovliest val- 
lies of which you can conceive ; green meadows, wooded 
hills, golden purple groves, brown fields, resting from the 
gleanings of a bounteous harvest ; villages dotted here and 
there with the most charming irregularity ; farm houses and 
farms, each in themselves a little Arcadia ; countless roads di- 
verging from a common centre, and winding about untfl in the 
distance they look like the tiny trail which a child's stick 
makes in the sand ; a broad silvery river, looking in the sun- 



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shine like liquid light, reproducing on its clear surface the 
wonderful beauty which lines either bank, studded with green 
isles that 'blossom as the rose,' spanned by splendid bridges- 
as delicate in their appearance as lace work or filagree, yet 
supporting thousands of tons daily ; in the heart of all a city, 
whose factories, furnaces, churches, majestic public buildings, 
handsome private residences and attractive suburbs betoken 
prosperit}^ intelligence, culture, wealth and constant improve- 
ment ; over the whole throw that peculiar coleur de rose with 
which the heart in its happiest moments paints all it loves, 
and you will have a faint idea of the aspect of Dauphin coun- 
ty as seen from the Capitol dome/' 

The range of hills on the opposite side of the river, to the 
south, are the Conestoga Hills, aud the mountains north are the 
Kittatinny, or Blue Mountains. The lofty stand pipe at the 
water works on the river bank, 230 feet high ; the Union Sol- 
diers' monument on the broad avenue leading towards the 
river ; the prominent brick building of the Home of the Friend- 
less, in the northern part of the city ; the white dome of the 
Insane Asylum ; the gap distinctly seen where the Susque- 
hanna divides the Blue Mountains ; the Arsenal to the east ; 
the Cemetery, the Reservoir and East Harrisburg, are all prom- 
inent objects, and are to be included in the grand panorama 
so enthusiastically described in the letter quoted. 

We now retrace our steps, and proceed to the third, or most 
northern building — the Executive, State Treasury and Audi- 
tor's Departments. Visitors should pass to the east end to the 
main entrance. We proceed first to the second floor, where 
we enter the reception room of the Gubernatorial apartment. 
Here are the oil painted portraits of the Governors, including 
William Penn, as he appeared in 1666, dressed in a full suit of 
mail, with long dark hair flowing over his shoulders, suc- 
ceeded by Gordon, Logan, Richard Penn, John Penn, Whar- 
ton, Moore, Franklin, Mifflin, M'Kean, Snyder, Findley, 
Hsister, Shultz, Wolf, Ritner, Porter, Shunk, Johnston, Big- 
ler. Pollock, Packer, Curtin and Geary, to be supplemented 
soon by one of the present popular incumbent — Governor John 
P. Hartranft, On the walls, in small plain frames, are locks 
of hair of George Washington and Benjamin Franklin, with 



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accompaDj'iiig explanatory letters. The courteous officer in 
charge of the room will inform visitors, if His Excellency, the 
Governor, is in the Executive Chamber and may be seen, or if 
his apartments and those of the Secretary of State may be 
visited. 

From the reception room we pass into the hall, and the first 
door to the right is the office of the Deputy Secretary of the 
Commonwealth, where are many^ attractions, and are well 
worth a visit. Suspended in a glass case along the walls are 
the certificates of the election of the first Presidents and Vice 
Presidents of the Colonial Assembly ; each signed by all the 
members who participated in the election ; also the first con- 
stitution of Pennsylvania, and the charter of Charles II to 
William Penn, both inscribed on parchment, and the latter a 
specimen of splendid fancy penmanship. But the most inter- 
esting feature, perhaps, is the glass cabinet of State relics ; 
almost as highly prized for their age, as the stirring events of 
which they once formed a part, and for which they now serve 
as living indices of their early history. In it is a flag taken 
from the Hessians at the battle of Trenton, now a bundle of 
moth-eaten, faded silk ; a package of yellow, torn letters, be, 
ing fragments of original correspondence between Alexander 
Hamilton and Benjamin Franklin ; letters from Washington 
and Robert Morjns, with their respective autographs ; the 
original charter, on. a long, board-like parchment, of Charles II 
to William Penn, for the Province of Pennsylvania ; sundry 
laws passed in 1682-90 ; deeds of conveyance of land sold by 
the Indians to the proprietors, and bearing the Indian signa- 
tures, or marks, some of which would puzzle a naturalist, as 
there is surely nothing above, on or under the earth like to 
them — snakes, lizards, turtles, bears, deer, foxes, elks — almost 
every specimen of the animal tribe, are endeavored to be rep- 
resented as their signs manual. Among the ''considerations'^ 
named in one of the deeds, is " a handful offish-hooks ;" here 
are also seals of beeswax, .stamped with devices that would 
puzzTe the most ingenius to decipher ; a mass of Continental 
money, or shinjjlasters, from a shilling to ten pounds sterling ; 
specimens of brass and copper money ; all of which are a study 
for the curious. The next room is that occupied by the cleri- 



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cal force of the State department. We now pass tbrough the 
hall to the western end, and descend by a circular stairway to 
the portico floor, in front of the Treasury and Auditor Gene- 
ral departments. Both are open to visitors. Having com- 
pleted the ^'Tour of the Buildings/' we proceed to the front 
of the main building to resume the tour of the city. 



TOUR OF THE CITY RESUMED, 
ox WEST STATE STREET. 

The handsome avenue, 120 feet wide, immediately in front 
of us, is West .State street, with the Union Soldiers' monu- 
ment prominently before us. The large brick hotel, corner of 
Third street, is the Keystone, and near by, on same side, is 
West State Street Public school building — a specimen of the 
public schools — although later ones of larger dimensions and 
finer specimens of architecture may be seen in other portions 
of the city. On the right hand is the Grace M. E. church ; 
when completed this will be one of the most costly as well as 
mast beautiful churches in the State. A little farther on, on 
the same side, is the private residence of the Bishop, and the 
St. Patrick's Pro-Cathedral. • 

The monument at the intersection of Secand and State streets 
has the following inscription: ''To the Soldiers of Dauphin 
County who gave their lives for the life of the Union in the 
war for the suppression of the Rebellion, 1861-5. Erected by 
their fellow citizens, 1869." The design is purely classic, and 
is founded on the proportions of the pair of obelisks at the 
gates of Memphis, and of that which stands in the Place Yen- 
dome, at Paris. It is four-sided, ten feet square at the base and 
eleven diameters (one hundred and ten feet) high to the apex 
of the pyramidal top. When completed it will be a much 
more graceful object than the Bunker Hill monument. It was 
designed by Mr. E. Hudson Worral, of Harrisburg. Hefewe 
make the circuit of a single square and take in our view a 
specimen of the City Fire Department, the Cotton Mills and 
the Water Works. 



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ON XORTH SECOND STREET. 
From the monument we pass northward up Second street, half 
a square, to the eugine house of the Hope fire companj^, which 
contains a specimen of the machinery, and from which may be 
inferred the efiBciency of the City Fire Department. • 

ON NORTH STREET. 
At North street, the first crossing, we turn to the left, when 
we have a full view of the extensive Cotton Mills. They were 
erected in 1848, built of brick, four stories, 200 by 60 feet. The 
main building is surmounted with a cupola containing a large bell. 
The stack is 104 feet high. The engine of the mill is of 280-horse 
power, with a five foot stroke. The first floor is the carding 
room, with 90 cards. The second contains the looms, 271 in 
number. The third floor has 8,000 spindles. The fourth floor 
is the dressing room. The western building is the picking 
room, where the raw cotton is introduced. The room on the 
north, 100 by 50 feet, is the wareroom. The company's office 
is on the corner of Second and North streets. The mill is not 
open to visitors. 

Immediately facing North street, on the river bank, are the 
City Water Works, with the. towering standpipe, rising majes- 
tically to a height of 230 feet. 

On the 18th day of September, 1841, the v/ater v/orks v/ere 
completed at a total expense of $120,000- -a large sum in those 
days, but meagre compared with the sum expended in erecting 
the present ones— which reach well on to a million of dollars. 
A spiral stairway leads to the top of the standpipe, from 
which visitors may obtain an extended vi^w. [Full details 
naay be obtained at the office, and visitors directed to the ma- 
chinery, &c.] 

Independence Island, to the west of the water works, acces- 
sible by rope ferry, is a resort for private parties, picnics, etc.,' 
and a cool and pleasant retreat in the summer months. 

ON FRONT STREET. 
Leaving the water works we proceed southward aloDg the 
river, obtaining a delightful view' of the picturesque Susque- 
hanna ; the site oT the villages on the opposite shore, and the 
charming scenery beyond. The sunset scenes from this point 



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are peculiarly fine and often attract citizens in large numbers. 
On the ridge opposite is Fort Washington and the line of de- 
iences constructed in 1863, to resist the rebel invasion, some 
advance parties having approached to within a few miles of 
the city. Gettysburg, in a straight line is about thirty-six miles 
distant, in a south-west direction, and about seventy miles 
by railroad. The Northern Central railroad, from Canandaigua, 
N. Y. to Baltimore, extends along the opposite banks. Pas- 
sengers on this route are often confused for want of the knowl- 
edge that this road does not extend into the city, but trains 
are brought over the Cumberland Valley bridge to the Harris- 
br.rg depot and returned on the same track, when they resume 
their way up or down on the opposite side. 

Crossing State street we obtain a fine front view of the Capi- 
tol. On the south-east corner of State and Front is the private 
residence of the Hon. J. D. Cameron, Secretary of War. 

On the north-east corner of South and Front streets, is the 
old Ilarrisburg Academy and residence of the principal. It 
is one of the oldest educational institutions in the State, hav- 
ing been established in 1809, and is still in full vigor. 

Front street stretching out before us is the finest .street of 
the city. It will be admired by every visitor. It is orna- 
mented with trees, and contains some of the finest specimens 
of architecture and is becoming a most attractive drive and 
promenade. From State street to Paxton — the lower ex- 
tremity of Harris Park — it presents an almost unbroken 
range of magnificent buildings of brick, stone, marble or 
granite, erected by families of wealth and distinction, who 
adorn it with splendid homes. The palatial three-story 
brick mansion, Nos. 313 and 311, is the residence of the Gov- 
ernor. It is plain, without architectural pretentions, but ap- 
propriately finished and furnished, and was presented to the 
State by the citizens of Harrisburg, in 1864, as an Executive 
Mansion. 

A short distance below Pine street is the St. Stephen's 
Protestant Episcopal Church, a plain brick edifice of Gothic 
architecture, surmounted by a massive brick tower. 

At the head of Market street we have a favorable prospect, 
showino; this thoroughfare from the river to the depots. On 



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•our right we have the Market street bridge, the history of 
which carries us back to the period of 1812, when the first 
foundation stone was laid December 2. It was not completed, 
however, until 18 It. The State appropriated $90,000 to 
the stock of the company, and the entire cost of bridge and 
toll houses was $192,138. Theodore Burr was the contractor. 
The first toll was received by the company October 16, 1816. 
The total length is about two-thirds of a mile, width forty feet, 
and has an elevation of fifty feet. The part nearest the city 
was carried away by the flood of March 15, 1846. This was 
re-built in 1847, was destroyed by fire in 1866, and for the 
third time re-placed by the present structure, its graceful pro- 
portions affording a striking contrast with the antique, though 
■still firm original structure spanning the river on the western 
side of Forster's island, which separates it. 

The second bridge is that of the Cumberland Valley railroad, 
at the head of Mulberry street. TJ^e original bridge was erec- 
ted in 1836-9, at a cost of $110,000. The first locomotive 
crossed January 16, 1839, but the bridge was destroyed by fire 
in 1844, and re-built in 1846, The carriage ways below the 
tracks are not used for footmen or carriages, having been for- 
bidden by an act of the Legislature, for a period, and sub- 
sequently a monopoly of the right to collect tolls was obtained 
by the Harrisburg Bridge Company. It was entirely re- 
modeled in 1856. Its length is about four thousand three 
hundred feet, highest piers forty-two feet. The two spans 
across Forster's island are constructed of iron, calculated to 
resist the progress of fire that might at any time occur on 
■either side. Visitors are not allowed to enter upon the bridge, 
the large number of trains crossing rendering it dangerous. 

The large stone mansion opposite the Park, near the corner 
of Front and Washington avenue, is the old '^ Harris mansion," 
and the present residence of the Hon. Simon Cameron. It is 
a plain two story blue stone edifice, without architectural at- 
tractions, but massive and substantial, indicating plenty and 
refinement, the home of a plain, practical man and statesman, 
as our distinguished and esteemed citizen is universally re- 
garded by those who know him best. ■ 

The Harris mansion was originally. erected in 1*766 by John 
Harris, Jr., and remained in the^Harris family until 1840, when 



it was sold to Thomas Elder, Esq. On the death of Mr. Elder,, 
in 1855, it was purchased by the Rev. Beverly R. Waugh, for 
use of the Pennsylvania Female College. On the death of Mr. 
Waugh, in 1861, it remained under the control of his executor 
until 1863, when it passed into the possession of its present 
owner, Mr. Cameron. 

HARRIS PARK. 
This locality must forever remain the most interesting in 
tl^e annals of Ilarrisburg. Here the elder John Harris built 
his hut in the wilderness one hundred and fifty years ago, and 
became the first settler, braving the dangers of the pioneer 
life. Here the distinguished men of those times held councils 
and gave a prominence to the locality that gave it celebrity 
throughout the old world. In the park, near the river bank, 
is the grave of the hero, John Harris, (father of the founder of 
Harrisburg,) together with numerous other graves, but not 
marked. The grave is surrounded by a strong iron fence, and 
as yet has no other monument than the trunk of the miaflberry 
tree, to which he was tied and so nearly became the victim of 
the savages. Geo. W. Harris, Esq., a few years ago, planted 
a young mulberry, which is growing and will perpetuate the 
mulberry in the sacred enclosure. It is also proposed to erect 
a monument. It awakens interesting associations to stand 
here and look upon the river now, contrasting, in imagination, 
the solitary trader, and his pack horse, laden with furs, cross- 
ing ''Harris Ferry,'^ more than one hundred years ago, with 
the swift ''iron horse, '^ puffing and rattling with his long 
train across that beautiful bridge, on an iron road elevated 
fifty feet above water — almost literally a fiery steed flyings- 
through the air. [See also " Historical Narrative.''] 

THE MULBERRY TREE. 

The mulberry tree in the grave-yard, to which it is alleged 
the first John Harris was fastened by Indians more than one- 
hundred and fifty years ago, has borne fruit within the recol- 
lection, and to the personal knowledge of persons now^living 
in Harrisburg. It was remarkable in size for one of its species.. 
The stump of it is still mostly firm and hard, is ten feet in 
height up to the lowest limbs, is about eleven feet six inches 



in circumference, and, of course, about three feet ten inches in 
diameter. 

Where is there a larger mulberry tree ? if there be such, 
where is it, and what its dimensions ? ; 

OX WASHINGTON AVENUE. 

Leaving Front street, we pass eastward out Washington 
avenue to Second street, where we turn to the left. This is 
the oldest portion of the city, and was once the triumphal 
route of George Washington, on the occasion of his western 
expedition to quell the '' whisky insurrection," October 3, 
1794. 

ON SOUTH SECOND STREET. 

As he passed up Second street, he is represented to have 
been standing up in a carriage with his hat off, returning the 
salutations of the surrounding multitude who thronged the 
streets to see him. The procession moved from the Ferry to 
Second street, and up Second to south-east corner of Market,, 
where he lodged at a brick hotel, long after called the " Wash- 
ington House," the site of the present "Jones House." No. 
121 South Second street, is the residence of George W. 
Harris, Esq., a lineal descendant of John Harris. After pass- 
ing Mulberry and Chestnut streets, on the south-west corner 
of Market Square is the Market Square Presbyterian church, 
tho first church organized in the city of Harrisburg, (1T94.) 
The splendid spire has been prominent from many points in 
the route, and is the loftiest in the city, being two hundred 
and six feet in height. The present church edifice was erected 
in 1858, in place of one destroyed by fire. It is of a rich 
Romanesque style, one hundred and thirty-three by sixty-six 
feet, exclusive of the projections. It is beautifully turreted, 
and a number of m.inarets adorn the sides, all of which com- 
bine to give it a rich appearance. The Sabbath school room 
and the lecture room are at the rear part of the building. It 
is perhaps the most charming auditorium in the city, and is 
well worth a visit. 

ON MARKET SQUARE. . 

Close by the church is the Harrisburg National Bank, univer- 
sally esteemed one of the best banking institutions in the Com- 
monwealth. 



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llere are the unornamental but commodious and accommo- 
dating street markets, originally erected in 1808, but since re- 
constructed ; destined soon, we hope, to give way to the more 
modern market houses. They are out of place now, and they 
mar and obscure the finest business square of the city. At 
the south-east corner of Second and Market street is the Jones 
House, (a fine hotel, $2 00 per day,) and half a square beyond, 
on the north-west corner of the Square, is the Bolton House, a 
first-class hotel, ($3 00 per day,) and is during the sessions of 
the Legislature the headquarters of Democratic statesmen and 
politicians. 

ON MARKET STREET. 

At Market we again turn to the right. The diminutive 
building so heavily columnated, and in striking contrast with 
the imposing Jones House, is the Dauphin Deposit Bank. 
Nearly opposite is the Dauphin County Court House, contain- 
ing all the county offices. The building was erected in 1860. 
The site, including the County Prison in rear of Court House, 
was donated by John Harris in 1785. The courts of Dauphin 
county were held here until 1812, from which period until 
1822 the State Legislature met here, and the courts were held 
in Walnut street, corner of Raspberry alley. 

Adjoining the Court House is Brant's Hall, erected in 1856, 
and was designed for a hotel on the European plan. It is 52 by 
108 feet, built of brick, four stories high, surmounted by an 
observatory, the top of which is one hundred feet above the 
pavemement. It contains rooms for theaters, concerts, lec- 
tures, etc., and on the first floor, hotel, restaurant and stores. 
The basement contains ten pin alley, shooting gallery, etc. 
The front ig of novel design, being composed of open vesti- 
bules, twenty-five feet deep, with colonades on each story. 
The Philadelphia and Reading Express is at No. 226, adjoin- 
ing Brant's Hall. The Telegraph building, and Lochiel Hotel 
opposite, previously noticed, remind the visitor that we have 
xeached Third and Market streets, and that we have gone over 
"The Route" and completed our observations to the point where 
we left Market street ; three squares distant in a direct line to 
Ihe depots, or place of beginning. 



HISTOEICAL ^AKRATIYE. 

At what eventfal era the footsteps of the white man first trod 
the -reen sward of this locality there is no certainty, but from 
the description of Captain John Smith, of the Virginia Company, 
who ascended the Susquehanna as far as the Great Falls (Cone- 
wago. 14 miles below the city,) there can be no doubt some of 
his hardy adventurers explored the country as far as the first 
range of the Kittochtinny hills. At that period (1608) the 
brave Susquehannas reigned here-they yielding subsequently 
to the conquering Iroquois. Finally (1695-8) the Shawanees, 
from the Carolinas, driven from thence by the Catawbas, lo- 
cated at the mouth of the difi-erent tributaries of the gr^eat river, 
as high up as the Forks. ^ 

Although, after the founding of Philadelphia, William Penn 
planned the laying out of a city on the Susquehanna, it is not 
certain that the founder, in his several visits to our majestic 
river ever came farther north than the Swatara, (nine miles 
down the river.) The first persons to spy out this goodly 
heritage of ours were French traders, one of whom located at 
the mouth of Paxtang creek, towards the close of the seven- 
teenth century. Of this individual, Peter Bezalion, little is 
known, but until the period, when the intrigues of the French 
and esDCcially the encroaahments of Lord Baltimore began to 
be feared, he acted as principal interpreter at Indian confer- 
ences He subsequently went to the Ohio, and also the re- 
maining French traders, and after 1725-6 he is lost sight of. 
At this period there were Indian villages at Conestoga, at 
Conoy, at the mouths of Swahadowry, (Swatara,) Peshtank, 
(Paxtang,) Conedoguinet, and Calapascink, (Yellow Breeches, 
tributaries to the Susquehanna.) The Cartlidges were located 
at Conestoga, after the removal of the Le Torts, Bezalion at 
Paxtang, and Chartiers at the. village opposite, while roving 
traders supplied the other Indian towns. 

It being absolutely necessary to license English traders' so 
as to prevent communication with the French on the Ohio, 
among the first was John Harris, who perchance entered this 



then lucrative field, the Indian trade, at the suggestion of his 
friend, Edward Shippen, Provincial Secretary. 

Of the John Harris, who thus located permanently at Har- 
risburg, and who gave the name to our city, we compile the 
following : ** He was as honest a man as ever broke bread," 
was the higheulogium pronounced by Parson Elder, of blessed 
memory, as he spoke'of the pioneer in after years. Born in 
the county of Yorkshire, England, about the year 16t3, he 
was brought up in the trade of his father, that of a brewer. 
Leaviug his home on reaching his majority, he worked at his 
calling some time in the city of London, where he joined, a 
few years afterwards, a company from his native district, who 
emigrated to Pennsylvania two or three years prior to Penn's 
second visit to his Province. Watson states that John Har- 
ris' ''entire capital amounted to only sixteen guineas." 

We first hear of him after his arrival in Philadelphia as a 
contractor for clearing and grading the streets of that ancient 
village. In 1698 his name is appended to a remonstrance 
to the Provincial Assembly against the passage of an act 
disallowing the franchise to all persons owning real estate 
less in value than fifty pounds. The memorial had its effect, 
and the objectionable law was repealed. By letters of intro- 
duction to Edward Shippen, the first mayor of Philadelphia, 
that distinguished gentleman became his steadfast friend, and 
through his influence, no doubt, were secured those favors 
which induced -him eventually to become the first permanent 
settler in this locality. 

In January, 1705, John Harris received his license from the 
commissioners of property, authorizing and allowing him to 
"seat himself on the Sasquehanna," and "to erect such build- 
ings as are necessary for his trade, and to enclose and improve 
such quantities of land as he shall think fit." At once he set 
about building a log house near the Ganawese (Conoy) settle- 
ment, but the Indians made complaint to the government that 
it made them "uneasie," desiring to know if they encouraged 
it," As in numerous instances, when the provincial authorities 
were taken to task, they disavowed their own acts. Never- 
theless, the "trader" continued his avocation, making frequent 
visits to the Shawancse villages at the Conewago and Swatara. 



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It is doubtful if John Harris came farther west until after the 
permanent removal of all the French traders. 

It was during one of. his expeditions that Harris first beheld 
the beauty and advantages of the location of Paxtang. It was 
the best fording place on the Susquehanna, and then, as now 
in these later days, on the great highway between the north 
and south, the east and the west. Annually the chiefs of the 
Five Nations went to the Carolinas, where were located their 
v^ast hunting grounds, and these, returning with peltrys, found 
need of a trading post. The eye of that hardy pioneer, looking 
out over the vast expanse of wood, and plain, and river, saw 
and knew that it was the place for the realization of that fond 
dream of the founder of Pennsylvania — ''a city on the Susque- 
hanna." At the period referred to, the lands lying between 
the Conewago or Lechay hills, and the Kittatinny mountains, 
had not been purchased from the Indians. Of course, neither 
John Harris nor the early Scotch-Irish settlers could locate 
except by the right of squatter sovereignty or as licensed 
traders. As a trader, it could only be with the permission of 
the Indians. Harris' first move was the erection of a store- 
house, which^he surrounded by a stockade. It was located on 
the lower bank of the river, at about what is now the foot of 
Paxton street, just below Harris Park. A well dug by him 
still exists, although covered over about twenty-five years 
ago, the old pump*_stock having become useless and the plat- 
form dangerous. A mound or hillock about one hundred feet 
south-east of the graveyard denotes the spot, " For almost a 
century, '^ in the language of thejpresent David Harris, 'Hhis 
well supplied a large neighborhood with water, which was ex- 
ceedingly cool and pleasant to the taste.'' Adjoining his cabin 
were sheds for the housing of peltrys obtained by traffic which, 
at stated/periods, were conveyed to Philadelphia on pack 
horses. 

About the year 1718 or '19 an incident took place in the life of 
John Harris which hasjeceived all sorts of versions, and even 
doubts as to jts_^ truthfulness. We shall give it as we believe 
it, and as traditionary and other facts, in our possession, sup- 
ply the materiartherefor. All the French traders having gone 
"over Sasquahannah," John Harris monopolized the business 



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at Paxtang. In glancing over the records of the Province of 
Pennsylvania, frequent allusions are made to the excursions of 
the northern Indians, either to hunting grounds in the south 
or to a conflict with a deadly foe. At one time the Ononda- 
goeS; on a predatory excursion against the Talapoosas, in Vir- 
ginia, descending the Susquehanna, left their canoes at Harris' , 
proceeding thence to the scene of strife. Situated as he was, 
at the best ford on the river, he commanded an extensive trade. 
His Indian neighbors (Shawanese) were very friendly, and, of 
course, would not allow any strange or predatory bands to mo- 
lest him. The deadly foe of the red race is rvm, and although 
the selling of it was expressly forbidden by the provincial au- 
thorities, yet there was scarcely a treaty or conference without 
this potion being a part of the presents made by the refined 
white man to his ignorant red brother. Of a consequence li- 
quor was sold, and we are told by Conrad Weiser, that one 
time, "on the Sasquahannah,'' the Indians, whom he was con- 
ducting to Philadelphia, became so drunk that he was fearful 
of them and left them. During the year referred to, it seems 
a predatory band of Indians, on returning from the Carolmas, 
or the " Patowmack," naturally halted at John Harris'. In 
exchanging part of their goods, probably rum — for this seems 
to have been the principal beverage drunk at that period — was 
one of the articles in barter. At least we have it by tradition 
that the Indians became riotous in their drunken revelry, and 
demanding rum were refused by Mr. Harris, who began 
to fear harm fi^om his visitors. Not to be denied, they again 
demanded liquor, and seizing him, they took him to a tree near 
by, binding him thereto. After helping themselves to what- 
ever they wanted of his stores they danced around the unhappy 
captive, who, no doubt, thought his death was nigh. 

Prior to this the Indian village of Paxtang had been deserted, 
and the inhabitants gone west of the Susquehanna. On the 
bluff opposite John Harris', as also at the mouth of the Yellow 
Breeches, there were lodges of Shawanese, and these held in 
high esteem our Indian trader. Information was taken them 
by Mr. Harris' negro servant, Hercules, who at once summoned 
the warriors and crossed the river, when, after a slight strug- 
gle with the drunken Indians, t\iej rescued, from a death of 
torture, their white friend. 



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Although no mention of these facts is noted in the provincial 
records, there may possibly have been good reason therefor, and 
it is well known that many incidents, well authenticated in later 
years, have not been noted in the documents referred to. By 
tradition and private sources alone are the;^ preserved from ob- 
livion. It was no myth, this attempt to burn John Harris, and 
although the pen and pencil have joined in making therefrom 
a romance, and heightened it with many a gaudy coloring, yet 
accurate resources have furnished us with the details here 
given. 

The remains of this tree, which in the memory of the oldest 
inhabitant bore fruit, stands within the enclosure at Harris 
park, a striking memento of that thrilling incident. 

Harris^ trade with the Indians continued to increase, and 
Harris' Ferry became known far and wide, not only to the red 
men, but to the white race in foreign countries. During John 
Harris' frequent visits to Philadelphia, he met, at the house of his 
friend Shippen, Miss Esther Say, like himself not over young, 
from his native Yorkshire, and in the latter part of tlie year 1720 
married her. The wedding took place either at the Swedes' 
Church, Wicaco, or at Christ Church, both being members of 
the Church of England. Among the early colonists who set- 
tled in Philadelphia, were a number of the name of Say, but 
to which family Esther Harris was connected is not to be as- 
certained with certainty. She was kinswoman to the Ship- 
pens, and of course respectably connected. A remarkable 
woman, she was also well calculated to share the love, the 
trials, the hardships and the cabin of the intrepid pioneer. 

In 1721-22 their first child, Elizabeth, was born; in 1725 
their second, Esther Harris, and in October, 1727, their first 
son, John Harris. This was the founder of Harrisburg The 
statement that he was the first white male child born west of 
the Gonewago Hills is not correct. There were settlers beyond 
along the Swatara, as early as 1718 ; and it is natural to sup- 
pose that in many a log cabin the sunshine of boyhood glad- 
dened the hearts of the hardy pioneer, and who also attained 
mature age. The parents carried their child when nearly a 
year old to Philadelphia, where he was baptized on the 22d of 
September, 1728, as they had previously done with their other 



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children. That of Esther Harris took place August 31, 1726, 
accordiug to the parish register of Christ Church, but we 
have not been able to ascertain the date of the baptism of the 
eldest child. 

Until this period (1728) the country lying between the Le- 
chay ( Conewago) hills and the Kittochtinny (Kittatinny or 
Blue) mountains was owned, or rather claimed by the Five 
Nations. It is true the Scotch-Irish settlers had been pushed 
within these bounds ten years previously by the very ubiqui- 
tous provincial authorities who destroyed their cabins on land 
already purchased. The treaty of 1128 opened up this vast 
and rich valley to the adventuresome. Filling up rapidly, on 
May 10, 1729, the Assembly passed ''An Act for the erecting: 
the Upper Part of the Province of Pennsylvania, lying to- 
wards the Sasquehannah, Conestogoe, Donnegal, etc., into a 
county,'^ to be called Lancaster. At the first court in and for 
said county, November 3, 1730, at Posthlethwaite's, a petition 
was presented by John Harris, among others, "praying that 
he may be recommended to the Governor as a suitable person 
to trade with the Indians," and "was allowed per curiam.^^ 
This, of course, was necessary in the change of counties ; 
heretofore the application passed through the court of Ches- 
ter County. Subsequently he makes application to the same 
authority to "sell rum by the small, '^ which was granted. 

In 1732, with the desire of establishing an additional trad- 
ing post, Harris built a store-house at the mouth of the Juniata. 
The last purchase (1728) not extending this far, the Indians 
objected to it, especially Sassbnan and Shickalamy, who wrote 
through their interpreters to the Governor, informing him of 
the fact, and also to John Harris, commanding him to desist 
from making a plantation at the point referred to. The au- 
thorities made no objection. 

By virtue of a patent from the Proprietaries of Pennsylvania, 
bearing date January 1, 1725-26, five hundred acres of land 
were granted to John Harris, father of the founder of Harris- 
burg, and subsequently, on the 17th of December, 1733, by a 
second patent, three hundred acres of allowance land, upon 
which he had commenced a settlement on the present site of 
the city, about the year 1717. The land included in the lat- 



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ter patent extended from what is now the line of Cumberland 
street some distance south of the present north boundary of 
the city, and including also a part of the present site of the 
city, with its several additions. Until the year 1735-36, there 
was no regularly constructed road to the Susquehanna, 'but at 
a session of the Provincial Council, held in Philadelphia, in 
January, 1735-36, on the petition of sundry inhabitants of 
Chester and Lancaster counties, ^'setting forth the want 
of a high road in the remote parts of the said counties where 
the petitioners are seated, and that a very commodious one 
may be laid out from the ferry of John Harris, on Susque- 
hanna, to fall in with the high road leading from Lancaster 
town at or near the plantation of Edward Kennison, in the 
Great Valley in the county of Chester,'' it was ordered that 
viewers be appointed who shall make a return of the same, 
^'togetherwith a draught of the saidro.ad.'' Subsequently this 
was done, and the high-way opened from the Susquehanna to 
the Delaware, and in ^'■ears after continued westward to the 
Ohio. As a matter of course, the laying out of this road in- 
creased greatly the business at Harris' Ferry, and it became 
at a very early period the depot of trade to the western and 
northern frontiers of the Province. 

Well advanced in life at the age of about seventy-five, after 
having for several years intrusted his business to his eldest son, 
still in his minority, in December, 1748, the first pioneer quietly 
passed away from earth, having previously made a request 
that his remains be interred underneath the shade of that tree 
so full of reminiscences. There his dust lies at rest on the 
banks of that beautiful stream, within the hearing of its thun- 
dering at flood-tide, and the musical rippling of its pellucid 
waters in its subdued majesty and beauty. 

The oldest son, John Harris, who succeeded to the greatest 
portion of his father's estate, and who, in 1785, laid out the 
Capital City of Pennsylvania, married, first, Elizabeth M'Clure 
and, second, Mary Reed, daughter of Adam Reed, of Hanover. 

The second John Harris was a prominent personage during 
the Indian wars, and the principal military storekeeper on the 
frontier. His letters to the Governors of the Province and 
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other officials would make an interesting page in the annals of 
the locality. 

By a grant from Thomas Penn and Richard Penn, Esqs., pro- 
prietors, to John Harris, Jr., bearing date of record '*ye 19th 
February, 1753," that gentleman was allowed the right of run- 
ning a ferry across the Susquehanna, from which originated 
the former name of the place, which previous to the organiza- 
tion of the county, was known as Harris' Ferry, 

It appears from letters of John Harris, written to Governor 
Morris, that an Indian named Half King, also called Tanacha- 
risson, died at his house on the night of the first of October, 
1754. Rupp says that ''he had his residence at Logstown,. 
on the Ohio, fourteen miles below Pittsburg, on the opposite 
side. George Washington visited him in 1753, and desired 
him to relate some of the particulars of a journey he had shortly 
before made to the French Commandant at Fort Duquesne.'' 
We find this note among the votes of Assembly, 1754 : *' De- 
cember 17, Post Meridian, 1754 — The Committee of Accounts 
reported a balance of £10, 15s. 4id. due to the said John Harris 
for his expenses, and £5 for his trouble, &c., in burying the 
Half-King and maintaining the sundry Indians that were with 
him." They had considerable trouble at Harris' Ferry during 
the French and English war, which extended over the period 
from 1754 to 1765. A petition from the inhabitants of the 
townships of Paxtang, Derry and Hanover, Lancaster county, 
bearing date July 22, 1754, and setting forth their precarious 
condition, was presented and^read in the Council on the 6th 
of August following. It bore the signatures of Thomas Fors- 
ter, James Armstrong, John Harris, Thomas Simpson, Samuel 
Simpson, John Carson, David Shields, William M'Mullin, 
John Cuoit, William Armstrong, William Bell, John Dough- 
erty, James Atkin, Andrew Cochran, James Reed, Thomas 
Rutherford, T. M'Carter, William Steel, Samuel Hunter, Thos. 
Mayes, James Color, Henry Remmicks, Richard M'Clure, 
Thomas Dugan, John Johnson, Peter Flemming, Thomas Stur- 
geon, Matthew Taylor, Jeremiah Sturgeon, Thomas King, 
Robert Smith, Adam Reed, John Crawford, Thomas Crawford, 
Jonathan M'Clure, Thomas Hume, Thomas Steen, John Hume, 
John Creige, Thomas M'Clure, William M'Clure, John Rod- 



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gers, James Patterson, John Young, Ezra Sankey, John For- 
ster, Mitchel Graham, James Toalen, James Galbraith, James 
Campbell, Robert Boyd, James Chambers, Robert Armstrong, 
John Campbell, Hugh Black and Thomas Black. 

There are a number of copies of letters from John Harris, 
Conrad Weiser, and others, to Edward Shippen, Esq., com- 
plaining of the insecurity of life and property, owing to the 
depredations of the Indians, and their tenor is a continual and 
just complaint of the outrages committed by the savages, and 
requests to the authorities for protection and arms, etc. 

On the 8th of January, 1756, a council with the Indians was 
held at the house of John Harris, Jr., at Paxtang, composed 
of Hon. Robert Hunter Morris, Governor; James Hamilton 
and Richard Peters, Secretaries ; Joseph Fox and Conrad 
\ Weiser, Interpreters ; two Indians of the Six Nations, called 
" The Belt of Wampum," a Seneca, and the " Broken Thigh," 
a Mohawk. The meeting was of an amicable character, and 
was only the preliminary step to a larger and more important 
council to be held soon after at Carlisle. One of the reasons 
for holding the council at the latter place was, '* that there 
were but few conveniences at Harris' Ferry, and Mr. Weiser 
gave it as his opinion that it would be better to adjourn to 
Carlisle." A second council w^as held here on the 1st of 
April, 1751 — Present, the Rev. John Elder, Captain Thomas 
M'Kee, Messrs. James xlrmstrong, Hugh Crawford, John 
Harris, William Pentrup, interpreter, and warriors from the 
Mohawks, Oneidas, Tuscaroras, Onondagoes, Nanticokes, Cay- 
ugas, Delawares, Senecas and Conestogoes, with their women 
and children. George Croghan, Esq., deputy agent to the 
Hon. Sir W. Johnson, Bart., his Majesty's sole agent and 
superintendent of the Six Nations, etc., was also present. 
This council was removed to Lancaster, where the remainder 
of the business was concluded. 

The most interesting event of this period was the extermi- 
nation of the so-called Conestoga Indians by the Paxtang Ran- 
gers. The situation of the frontiers succeeding the Pontiac war 
was truly deplorable, principally owing to the supineness of the 
Provincial authorities, for the Quakers, who controlled the 
government, were, to use the language of Captain Lazarus 



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Stewart, " more solicitous for the welfare of the blood-thirsty 
Indian than for the lives of the frontiersmen." In their blind 
partiality, bigotry and political prejudice, they would not 
readily accede to the demands of those of a different religious 
faith. To them, therefore, was greatly attributable the reign 
of horror and devastation in the border counties. The govern- 
ment was deaf to all entreaties, and General Amherst, com- 
mander of the British forces in America, did not hesitate to 
give his feelings an emphatic expression : " The conduct of 
the Pennsylvania Assembly,'^ he wrote, "zs altogether so infatu- 
ated and stupidly obstinate, thai I want words to express my in- 
dignation thereat.' ' Nevertheless, the sturdy Scotch-Irish and 
and Germans of this section rallied for their own defense. 
The inhabitants enrolled themselves into several companies, 
the Rev. John Elder being their colonel. 

Lazarus Stewart, Matthew Smith and Asher Clayton, men 
of acknowledged military ability and prowess, commanded 
distinct companies of Eangers. These brave men were ever 
on the alert, watching with eagle eye the Indian marauders 
who at this period swooped down upon the defenseless fron- 
tiers. High mountains, swollen rivers, or great distances 
never deterred or appalled them. Their courage and forti- 
tude were equal to every undertaking, and woe betide the red 
men when their blood-stained tracks once met their eyes. The 
Paxtang Rangers were the terror of the Indians ; they were 
swift on foot, excellent horsemen, good shots, skillful in pur- 
suit or in escape, dexterous as scouts and expert in manoeuver- 
ing- 

The murders in and around Paxtang, notwithstanding the 
vigilance of the Rangers, became numerous, and many a fam- 
ily mourned for some of their number shot by the secret foe or 
carried away captive. The frontiersmen took their rifles with 
them to the field and to the sanctuary. Their colonel and pas- 
tor placed his trusty piece beside him in the pulpit. It is stated 
that on one occasion the meeting house was surrounded while 
he was preaching, but their spies having counted the rifles, 
the Indians retired from their ambuscade without making an 
attack. Deed after deed was perpetrated by the savage In-> 
dians, but where these came from was a mystery. 



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Indians bad been traced by the scouts to the wigwams of 
the so-called friendly Indians at Conestoga, and to those of the 
Moravian Indians in Northampton county. Suspicion was 
awakened. The questions, ' 'are these Christian Indians treach- 
erous ? Are their wigwams the harbors of our deadly foe ? 
Do they conceal the nightly prowling assassin of the forest ; 
the villian, who, with savage ferocity, tore the innocent babe 
from the bosom of its mother, where ifc had been quietly repos- 
ing, and hurled it in the fire ? The mangled bodies of our 
friends cry aloud for vengeance. '^ Such were the questions, 
surmises and expressions of the exasperated people. The Pax- 
tang Rangers were active in endeavoring to discover the per- 
petrators of those acts of violence, and, as the sequel shows, 
determined that the Indians "who had been housed and fed as 
the pets of the Province'^ were the guilty foes, and adopted "an 
Indian policy," that seems to have solved the problem when 
the Conestoga Indians were exterminated: The event caused 
considerable animosity between the Scotch-Irish Presbyterians 
and the Quakers. The policy of the latter was good enough 
during peace, but in troublesome times, from 1754 to 1765, 
amicable considerations were out of the question. 

The Quakers, who controlled the government, as heretofore 
remarked, "seemed resolved, '^ says Parkman, "that they 
would neither defend the people of the frontier or allow them 
to defend themselves, vehemently inveighed against all expe- 
ditions to cut off the Indian marauders Their security was 
owing to their local situation, being confined to the eastern 
part of the Province." That such was the case, rather than to 
the kind feelings of the Indian towards them, is shown by the 
fact that of the very few living in exposed positions, several 
were killed. 

The people declared openly that they no longer confided in 
the professions of the Governor or his advisers ; numbers of 
volunteers joined the Rangers of Northampton, Berks, Lancas- 
ter, York and Cumberland, who were engaged in tracing the 
midnight assassin. 

The discussions which ensued the policy enacted by the in- 
habitants of Paxtang may truly be said to have sown the seeds 
of the Revolution, and in a letter of Governor John Penn to 



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his brother in England, written at the time, he thus alludes to 
the inhabitants of Paxtang, "their next move will be to subvert 
the government and establish one of their own." 

No wonder then, when the first mutterings of a storm were 
heard, that the people of this entire section were ripe for revo- 
lution. The love of liberty was a leading trait of the people 
who settled this delightful valley. The tyranny and oppres- 
sion of Europe drove them to seek an asylum among the prime- 
val forests of America. Persecutions for conscience sake com- 
pelled alike the Scotch-Irish and the German of Palatinate to 
come hither and rear their altars dedicated to God and Freedom 
to man. With them Independence was as much their dream 
as the realization. Their isolated position — placed on the 
frontiers — unprotected by the provincial authorities — early in- 
stilled in their minds those incentives to action, that when the 
opportune moment arrived they were in the van. Two years 
before the Declaration by Congress, the people had assembled 
at their respective places of rendezvous, and heralded forth 
their opinions in plain and unmistakable language, while the 
citizens of the large towns were fearful and hesitating. 

As early as the spring of 1774 meetings were held in the 
difierent townships, the resolves of only two of which are pre- 
served to us. The earliest was that of an assembly of the in- 
habitants of Hanover, Lancaster county, held on Saturday, 
Juno 4, 1774, Colonel Timothy Green, chairman, *'to express 
their sentiments on the present critical state of affairs.'^ It 
was then and there '^ Unanimously resolved :'^ 

" 1st. That the recent action of the Parliament of Great Bri- 
tain is iniquitous and oppressive. 

" 2d. That it is the bounden duty of the inhabitants of Amer- 
ica to oppose every measure which tends to deprive them of 
their just prerogatives. 

" 3d. That in a closer union of the colonies lies the safe- 
guard of the people. 

" 4th. That in the event of Great Britain attempting to force 
unjast laws upon us by the strength of arms, our cause we 
leave to Heaven and our rifles. 

'' 5th. That a committee of nine be appointed who shall act 
for us and in our behalf as emergencies may require. 



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^'The committee consisted of Col. Timotjiy Green, Jas. Ca. 
Tuthers, Josiah Espy, Robert Dixon, Thomas Copenheffer, 
William Clark, James Stewart, Joseph Barnett and John 
Rogers.'' 

Not to be behind their Scotch-Irish neighbors, the German 
inhabitants located in the east of the county, met at Freder- 
ickstown (now Hummelstown,) on Saturday, the 11th of June, • 
at which Captain Frederick Hummel was chairman, resolving 
to stand by the other townships in all their action. 

We say they were ripe for revolution, and when the stirring 
battle drum aroused the new-born nation, the inhabitants of 
Dauphin valiantly armed for the strife. One of the first com- 
panies raised in the colonies was that of Captain Matthew 
Smith, of Paxtang. Within ten days after the receipt of the 
news of the battle of Lexington, this company was armed and 
equipped, reacjy for service. Composing this pioneer body of 
patriots was the best blood of the county — the Dixons, the 
JElders, the Simpsons, the Boyds, the Reeds, the Tods and 
others. Archibald Steele and Michael Simpson were the lieu- 
tenants. It was the second company to arrive in front of 
Boston, coming south of the Hudson river. It was subse- 
quently ordered to join General Arnold in his unfortunate 
campaign against Quebec, and the most reliable account of 
that expedition was written by a member of this very Paxtang 
company, John Joseph Henry, afterwards President Judge of 
Lancaster and Dauphin counties. They were enlisted for one 
year. The majority, however, were taken prisoners at Que- 
bec, while a large percentage died of wounds and exposure. 

At one period the entire country was so bare of men that 
the old men, the women and the lads of ten and twelve years 
not only done the planting and harvesting, but took up arms 
to defend their homes in the threatened invasion by Indians 
■and tories after the massacre of Wyoming. 

At Trenton, at Princeton, at Brandywine and Germantown, 
.a,t the Crooked Billet, and the Paoli, the militia of Dauphin 
fought and bled and died. There were over one hundred and 
fifty commissioned officers, including the gallant Burd, Crouch, 
•Green, Weir, Cox, Boyd, Graham, Forrest, Allen and Lee, and 
the-chivalric Stewart, Murray, Wilson, Wiggins and Rogers — 



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and that long line of heroes whose brilliant achievements shed 
an undying glory on the patriotism of Dauphin county in th& 
Eevolution. 

It is said that John Harris, Sr,, was once offered by the 
Penns, all of the land from the river to Silver Spring, and ex- 
tending across the Cumberland Valley, from mountain to 
mountain for £5 ,000. He offered £3 ,000 and refused to give 
more. At his death he owned about 2,600 acres, some- 
of which was on the opposite side of the river, where the old 
Indian town had once been, and included the ferry, Shriner's 
Island, &c. 

Of Esther, the wife of the elder Harris, several anecdotes^ 
are told, "which establish her promptness and energy of char- 
acter. The mansion house, situate near the river, as before 
mentioned, was surrounded by a stockade, for security against 
the Indians. An English officer was one night at the house, 
when by accident the gate of the stockade was left open.. 
The officer, clothed in his regimentals, was seated with Mr. 
Harris and his wife at the table. An Indian entered stealthily 
and thrust his rifle through one of the port-holes of the house, 
and, it is supposed, pointed it at the officer, but the gun sim- 
ply flashed. Instantly Mrs. Harris blew out the candle, to 
prevent the Indian from aiming a second time, when he re- 
treated. 

John Harris, Jr., the founder of Harrisburg, died the 29th of 
July, 1^791, and is buried in the graveyard of the Paxton church 
a few miles out of the city. (Elsewhere noted.) He was about 
sixty-five years of age. He was an active, energetic and indus- 
trious man. He farmed extensively and traded with the Indians 
for skins and furs. In his time Harris' Ferry became a cele- 
brated place. It is said to have been so well known in England, 
Ireland and Germany, that letters were directed from these 
countries "to the care of John Harris, Harris' Ferry, Northr 
America." He had an enthusiastic faith in the advantages of 
the position of his property. It is said that many years be- 
fore the town was laid out he predicted that this place would 
become the centre of business in this section of country, and 
would be the seat of government of Pennsylvania. When the 
town was subsequently laid out in 1785, he conveyed with 



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other propert}^ to the commissioners for laying out the town, 
viz : Jacob Awl, Joshua Elder, Andrew Stewart, James Cow- 
den and William Brown, four acres of ground, now composing 
part of Uapitol Park, east of the present buildings, '^ in trust 
for public use, and such public purpose as the Legislature shall 
hereafter direct.^' 

That he was patriotic the following account will establish : 
When Independence was agitated, he thought the Declaration 
premature, and feared that the Colonies were unequal to the 
task of combating successfully with Great Britain, but when 
Independence was declared, he took his wife and children 
aside, and read to them the Declaration from a Philadelphia 
newspaper. When he concluded it, he observed : " The act 
is now done, we must take sides for or against the country. 
The war cannot be carried on without money. We have 
£3,000 in the house, and if you agree, I will take the money 
to Philadelphia and put it in the public treasury to carry on 
the war. If we succeed in obtaining our Independence we 
may lose the money, as the Government may not be able to 
pay it back, but we will get our land.'' It was agreed, and 
he carried the money to Philadelphia, deposited it in the 
treasury and took certificates. After the war he sold these 
certificates for 17s. M. on the pound. 

The law erecting Dauphin county, and declaring Harris'" 
Ferry the seat of justice, was passed 4th of March, 1785. The 
town of Harrisburg was laid out in the spring of the same year 
by William Maclay, who was the son-in-law of John Harris. 
Mr. Maclay, with Robert Morris, afterwards represented Penn- 
sylvania in the first Senate of the United States under the Con- 
stitution. 

The great ice flood happened in the winter of 1783-4, and 
tfxQ pumpkin flood in September of 178G. During the ice flood 
the grave yard (now Harris Park) was covered with water, and 
the ferry-flats were tied to bars at the cellar windows of the store 
house. During the Pumpkin flood the grave yard was also 
covered, and the low grounds below were strewn in profusion 
with pumpkins, carried off chiefly from the Yankee settlements 
in Wyoming. 

At this time the grounds above Harrisburg were chiefly 
woodS; and bears came down from the mountains in large num- 



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bers to the corn fields of the settlements. In 1792 a wild buf- 
falo suddenly appeared among a herd of cattle that was graz- 
ing north of where the Capitol now stands. The cows were 
frightened and scampered into town, and the buffalo, true to 
its habits, followed the stampede into the place and was killed. 

About the year 1793 a fever, of a violent character, pre- 
vailed. At the same time the yellow fever was prevailing at 
Philadelphia, and fears were entertained of its introduction 
into Harrisburg. A patrol was accordingly established at the 
lower end of the town, to prevent infected persons from Phila? 
delphia coming into it. A mill-d^im, owned by two men named 
Landis, was generally thought to be the cause of the sickness. 
The citizens, after various meetings, resolved (March, 1795) 
on its removal, and a subscription was set on foot to raise 
money to pay for the property. The money raised was ten- 
dered, but refused by the Landises. The citizens then pre- 
pared for the forcible removal of the dam, and were threatened 
with forcible resistance. The citizens accordingly marched 
in a body to the dam on a cold snowy March day. The owners 
were there, with several men, armed with guns, and threatened 
to fire. The citizens, however, advanced into the water, and 
the dam was soon demolished. The Landises threatened a suit, 
and the citizens handed them a list of several hundred names 
to be sued, but the owners finally took the money. Moses Gil- 
more, Stacy Potts, Capt. John Sawyers, Adam Boyd, Robert 
Harris, John Kean, Samuel Weir, Gen. John A. Hanna, Alex- 
ander and Samuel Berryhill, and many others, were active in 
these proceedings. Some of the citizens who refused to con- 
tribute to the subscription were obliged to leave the place. No 
violence was done them, but they were refused employment, 
and they at length went elsewhere. The site of the mill-dam 
was along the present canal, a short distance below the Penn- 
sylvania railroad depot. 

John Hamilton erected the first permanent embellishment, 
after Harris' store house, by building a brick house on corner 
of Front street and Blackberry alley, also a large establish- 
ment for his store, on the south-east corner of Market street 
and Market square, subsequently became the " Washington 
House, '^ and was removed for the large hotel now there, the 



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*' Jones House." He was an extensive trader. He kept 
large numbers of horses and mules, and every few weeks his 
caravans set out for ''the west" laden with salt, powder, lead, 
&c. 

Chief Justice M'Kean, in 1778-9, resided here for some 
time. He lived in a one-story log house, (a short distance 
above Locust street.) He wore an immense cocked hat, and 
had great deference shown him by the country people and the 
Indians. After the country became quieted, when he and 
other judges of the Supreme Court came to Harrisburg to hold 
court, numbers of the citizens would go out on horseback to 
meet them, and escort them to town. Sometimes one or two 
hundred people would attend for that purpose. The sheriff, 
with his staff of oflScers, and other public officers, and the bar, 
would attend on the occasion ; and each morning whilst the 
Ohief Justice was in town holding court, the sheriff and con- 
stables would escort him from his lodgings to the court room. 
The Chief Justice, when on the bench, sat with his hat on, 
and was dressed in a scarlet gown. The earliest record of a 
court is dated third Tuesday of May, 1785. "At a court of 
quarter sessions, holden near Harris' Ferry, Timothy Green, 
Samuel Jones, and Jonathan M'Ciure, Esqrs., Justices." The 
names of the jurymen were : James Cowden, foreman, Robert 
Montgomery, John Gilchrist, Barefoot Brunson, John Clark, 
Rowan M'Clure, John Carson, John Wilson, William Crane, 
Archibald McAllister, Richard Dixon, John Pattimore, James 
Crouch, Jacob Awl, William Brown, Andrew Stewart, James 
Rogers, Samuel Stewart, John Cooper, Alexander Berryhill. 
The first prothonotary was Joshua Elder, and the first sheriff' 
Rudolph Kelker. On succeeding juries we recognize the 
names of many of the ancestors of our present citizens — the 
Coxes, Kelkers, Krauses, Hamiltons, Forsters, Buchers, Elders, 
Rutherfords, Espys, Orths, Foxes, &c. Several records ap- 
pear in which punishment was inflicted by lashes and standing 
in the pillory. 

The traveling accommodations were of the most advanced 
kind at that period as compared to the ''post horse" system, 
but contrast sadly with the present. In 1 797 the stages of Mat- 
thias Slough "set out from the house of Capt. Andrew Lee," 



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(afterwards the Washington House, ) running between Lancaster 
and Harrisburg — fare, two dollars ; to Carlisle, three dollars ; 
and to Shippensburg, four dollars. The stages of William Geer 
^'set out from the house of William Feree, in Lancaster, every 
Tuesday and Saturday mornings at six o'clock, proceeding 
westward ; and from the house of Samuel Elder, in Harrisburg, 
every Wednesday morning, arriving at Shippensburg same 
evening. '^ This line connected with stages which started from 
the White Horse Tavern in Market street, Philadelphia, every 
Monday and Friday. The same proprietor also ran a stage 
every Wednesday, which arrived at Sunbury every Thursday; 
returning on Saturday, ^'so that passengers from Sunbury, 
destined for Lancaster and Philadelphia, could proceed thence 
on Monday." 

The conveyance of the mails was equally slow. In 1797 
the Post Master General — General Joseph Habersham — issued 
proposals for carrying the mails, once in two weeks, as follows : 
From Harrisburg, by Clark's Ferry, Millerstown, Mifflintown, 
Lewistown, Huntingdon, Alexandria, Bellefonte, Aaronsburg, 
Mififlinburg, Lewisburg, Northumberland and Sunbury to Har- 
risburg. The mail to leave Harrisburg, from October 15th to 
April 15th, every other Monday at six A. M., and return to 
Harrisburg the next Monday by seven P. M. And from April 
15th to October 15th to leave Harrisburg every other Saturday 
at two P. M., and return to Harrisburg the next Sunday week 
by seven P. M. In 1812 the mails were advertised to leave for 
the west every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at two P. M., 
and for the east every day (Sunday excepted) at eight o'clock 
A.M. 

The removal of the seat of government to Harrisburg, 
although suggested as early as 1787, and often moved in the 
Assembly, did not prove successful until, by the act of Febru- 
ary, 1810, when "the offices of State government were directed 
to be removed to the borough of Harrisburg, in the county of 
Dauphin," "within the mouth of October, 1812," and "the ses- 
sions of the Legislature thereafter there to be held." The first 
sessions of the Assembly were held in the court house, and 
that body continued to occupy the building until the comple- 
tion of the Capitol. 



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The first meeting in the present Capitol building was on 
January 2, 1822. 

Previous to the opening of the Pennsylvania canal, the 
transportation facilities of the town were confined to Troy 
coaches or stages for passengers and Conestoga wagons, 
great lumbering vehicles with semi-circular tops of sail-cloth, 
drawn by six stalwart horses, for goods of various descriptions. 
This was expensive— and the completion of the ^public im- 
provements was an eventful era in the progress] and develop- 
ment of this locality. Reatestate advanced, commission and 
other merchants established themselves ion the line of the 
canal, rope and boat manufactories were erected and various 
enterprises inaugurated, giving new life and thrift^and pros- 
perity to the people. Passenger packets were esta'blished and 
it was considered a wonderful thing when four packet boats 
arrived and departed in a single day. The consuming of 
three days and a half to go to Pittsburg began to be deemed 
slow, and the building of railroads opened up'^another era in 
the development of the country. In September, 1836, the 
first train of cars entered the limits of Harrisburg, over the 
Harrisburg, Portsmouth, Mount Joy and Lancaster railroad. 
Following this effort other rapid transit enterprises were car- 
ried forward to completion until at the present time — when no 
less than one hundred trains of passenger cars arrive and leave 
Harrisburg for different points. We give these'^facts to show 
not only how great the travel, but the wonderful progress 
made in transit. 

The town of Harrisburg, so auspiciously begun, has steadily 
advanced . The prophecy of John Harris has been fulfilled , it is 
the seat of government of Pennsylvania, and one of the most 
prosperous cities of the Commonwealth. It is surrounded by 
one of the most fertile and charming valleys ; railroads, canals 
and macadamized roads radiating from it in^all directions ; with 
a highly intelligent, industrious and prosperous] population, 
and the centre of a transient population equalled by few inland 
cities; the political centre of the^State; constituting such 
great and varied attractions that satisfy the resident and 
tempt the manufacturer, trader, the professional man and the 
stranger. With these and the manufacturing advantages offered 



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we confidently recommend to labor or capital to seek a home in 
Harrisburg. Careful statisticians, estimating from the past, pre- 
dict that Pennsylvania, will, in the near future, become the 
Empire State, and that another decade will give to its cap'tal 
city a population of 60,000. 

It may not be out of place to allude to the many citizens 
to whom this city and county is indebted for its position, 
prominence and influence. Within its boundaries rest the re- 
mains of Governors Findley, Wolf, Porter and Geary. Hon- 
ored and revered in the church were the Reverends Roan, Bar* 
tram, Elder, Snodgrass, Snowden, Lochman, Castleman, Cook- 
man, DeWitt, Winebrenner, Berg and Maher. Among the 
physicians were Doctors Luther, Agnew, Simonton, Fager,. 
Roberts, ReSily, Orth, Rutherford, Seiler, Dock, and others cele- 
brated in their day and generation. Of members of the bar^ 
the names of Graydon, M'Cormick, Elder, Fisher, Kunkel, 
Forster, M'Kinney, Wood, Alricks, Ayres, Rawn and Briggs 
present themselves. Of valued citizens, representative men, 
the Harrises, Maclay, Hanna, Hamilton, Berryhill, Wyeth, 
Hummel, Beatty, M'Clure, Espy, Sloan, Graydon, Bombaugh,. 
Kelker, Beader, Bucher, Cowden, McAllister, Potts, Boyd, 
Kean, Giimore, Rutherford, Ross, Gray, Allen, Haldeman, 
Elder, Cox, Ziegler, Forster, with hundreds of others, may be 
named the worthy ancestors of prominent Dauphin county citi- 
zens of the present. 

The townships of Peshtank, Lebanon and Derry covered the 
territory within the bounds of the county of Dauphin and Leba- 
non in 1^29, when Lancaster county was formed. From the 
time of the organization of the former county until 1813, when 
Lebanon was separated therefrom, the townships were as fol- 
lows, with date of erection : — Paxton, 1*729 ; Lebanon, 1729; 
Derry, 1729; Hanover from Derry, 1737; Bethel from Lebanon, 
1739 ; Heidelburg, 1757 ; Londonderry, 1768 ; Upper Paxton^ 
1767; West Hanover, 1785; East Hanover, 1785; Middle 
Paxton, 1787 ; Swatara, 1799 ; Annville, 1799 ; Halifax,^:1804, 
and Lykeus, 1810. When Lebanon county was erected, the 
townships of L9banoD, East and West Hanover, Heidelberg, 
Bethel and Annville were lost to Dauphin. Since that period 
there have been erected : — Susquehanna, 1815 ; Mifflin, 1819 ; 
Rush, 1820 ; Jackson, 1828 ; Wiconigco, 1840 ; Lower jSwa- 



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tara, with new lines for Swatara, 1840 ; South, East and West 
Hanover, 1842; Jefferson, 1842; Washington, 1846; Reed, 
1849 ; Conewago, I8b0, and Williams, 1868. 

The different boroughs and villages were laid out as fol- 
lows : Harrisburg, 1785; Middletown, 1755; Hummelstown, 
1762; Dauphin, 1826; Millersburg, 1807; Halifax, 1794; 
Gratz, 1805; Berrysburg, 1871; Lykens, 1848; Highspire, 
1814; Linglestown, 1765; Rockville, 1839 ; Fisherville,1854 ; 
Wiconisco, 1848 ; Williamstown, 1869, and Uniontown, 1864. 

At the time of the organization of the county of Dauphin, it 
contained a population of nearly 16,000, although in 1790, 
when the first XJ. S. census was taken, the number was only 
18, 177, due probably to the emigration of great numbers f>f the 
Scotch-Irish, who removed either westward or southward. In 
1800, 22,270; in 1810, 31,883; in 1820, 21,653, a decrease, 
owing to the separation from it of the county of Lebanon, Feb- 
ruary 16, 1813, which by this census had a population of 16,- 
975. In 1830, 25,243. In 1840, 30,118. In 1850, 35,754. 
In 1860, 46,756. In 1870, 60,740. In 1876, at least 75,000. 

Of its 233,835 acres of land— 61,249 acres, or almost one- 
fourth, is unimproved. The value of farm property, $20,000,- 
000. As a farming community, however, Dauphin, owing to 
the large amount of untillable land, comes far down in the list 
of the counties of the State. And yet the portion of the county 
lying between the Conewago hills and the Kittatinny moun- 
tains contains as highly cultivated and productive farms as 
any in the United States. Thrift and intelligence character- 
ize the staid "Dutch'' farmers of Dauphin, and they vie with 
any community in all that appertains to enterprise and pro- 
gress. In manufacturing industries Dauphin is the sixth. 
Allegheny, Berks, Luzerne, Montgomery, and Philadelphia 
alone surpassing her. The earliest industrial establishment in 
this locality was the ^'nailery" of Henry Fulton in 1785, al- 
though we must give precedence to the enterprise of the ''no- 
fed Burney,'' who, five years previous, at his residence ''in 
Upper Paxtang,'- manufactured counterfeit coin. His estab- 
lishment was soon closed, however, the owner "sent to Lan- 
caster goal," and, although "he left a great quantity of his 
cash in the hands of several,'' he never returned to claim it or 
renew the labors of his manufactory. Fulton's establishment 



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was ODly a little remote from a "smithy.'' To look now at the 
industries of Ilarrisburg and the county of Dauphin the pro- 
gress within the last fifteen years is really wonderful, apart 
from the great contrast of fifty years ago. The number of man- 
ufactories, of iron alone, its furnaces, foundries, machine 
shops and nail works form a list as gratifying to the citizens 
as it is surprising to the visitor, The Pennsylvania steel 
works, the Lochiel iron works, M'Cormick's, Wister's, Dock's 
and Price's furnaces, the Harrisburg Car and Machine works, 
with a similar establishment at Middlctown, Hickok's Eagle 
works, lYillson's, Jenning's and numberless other foundries 
scattered all over the vicinity, only represent the iron indus- 
tries ; space prevents an enumeration of the other sources 
of wealth. All these are worthy the attention of visitors. The 
coal mines of the Lykens Valley, with its boundless treasures, 
the development of the entire county by means of the various 
railroads projected or running through it, are destined to bring 
the county of Dauphin in the van of mineral wealth. The 
future will open up the riches hidden as yet from our view. 

In the year 1860 Harrisburg received the highest corporate 
honors — that of a city. Although at the time receiving much 
opposition, yet its subsequent growth and prosperity have fully 
realized the fondest expectations of its earnest advocates. In 
size and importance it ranks the sixth in the State, and high 
up in the scale of cities in the Union. Population in 1870, 
23,104; in 1876, enumeration by direction of city councils, 
27,926 ; an increase of about 20 per cent. 
THE BUCKSHOT WAR. 

No historical resume of Dauphin county can be called com- 
plete without some reference to the so-called "Buckshot War" 
of 1838. At the October election of that year David R. Porter, 
of Huntingdon, was chosen Governor, after a hotly contested 
political canvas, over Governor Ritner. The defeated party 
issued an ill-timed and ill-advised address, advising the people 
''to treat the election as if it had not been held." It was de- 
termined, therefore, to investigate the election, and to do this 
the political complexion of the Legislature would be decisive. 
The majority of the Senate was Anti-Masonic, but the control 
of the House of Representatives hinged upon the admission of 
certain members of Philadelphia whose seats were contested. 



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The votes of one of the districts in that city were thrown out 
by reason of fraud, and the Democratic delegation returned. 
The Anti-Masonic return judges refused to sign the certificates, 
"and both parties made out returns each for a different delega- 
tion, and sent them to the Secretary of the Commonwealtb.'' 

When the Legislature met, the Senate organized by the 
choice of Anti-Masonic officers. In the House a fierce strug- 
gle ensued, both delegations'^claiming seats. The consequence 
was that each party went into an election for Speaker, each 
appointing tellers. Two Speakers were elected and took their 
seat upon upon the platform — William Hopkins being the 
choice of the Democrats, and Thomas S. Cunningham of the 
opposition. The Democrats believing they were in the right, 
left out of view the rejection of the votes of the Philadelphia 
district. However, when the returns from the Secretary's 
office were opened, the certificate of the minority had been 
sent in, thus giving the advantage to the Anti-masons. It was 
then a question which of the two Houses would be recog- 
nized by the Senate and the Governor. 

At this stage of the proceedings a number of men (from 
Philadelphia especially) collected in the lobby, and when the 
Senate, after organization, proceeded to business, interrupted 
it by their disgraceful and menacing conduct. The other 
branch of the Legislature was, in like manner, disturbed, and 
thus both houses were compelled to disperse. The crowd hav- 
ing taken possession of the halls, proceeded to the court house, 
where impassioned harangues were indulged in, and a com- 
mittee of safety appointed. For several days all business was 
suspended, and the G-overnor, alarmed for his own personal 
safety, ordered out the militia, and fearing this might prove 
insufficient, called on the United States authorities for help. 
The latter refused, but the militia under Major Generals Pat- 
terson and Alexander, came promptly in respone. For two or 
three days during this contest, the danger of a collision was 
imminent, but wiser counsels prevailed, and the Senate hav- 
ing voted to recognize the section of the House presided over 
by Mr. Hopkins, the so-called '' Insurrection at Harrisburg'^ 
was virtually ended. This was what is commonly known as 
the '' Buckshot War." 
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COUNTIES OF THE STATE. 

A Tabular Statement of their organization, square miles, loith 
the names of the County Toivns. 



Names. 


5 


County towns. 


Population 

1870. 


Square 
miles. 


Adams. 


1800 
1788 
1800 
1800 
1771 
1752 
1846 
1810 
1682 
1800 
1804 
1860 
1843 
1800 
1682 
1839 
1804 
1839 
1813 
1800 
1750 
1785 
1789 
1843 
1800 
1783 
1848 
1784 
1850 
' 1796 
1787 
1803 
1804 
1831 
1729 
1849 
1813 
1812 
1786 
1795 
1804 
,1800 
1789 
1836 
1784 
1850 
1752 


Gettysburg 

Pittsburo-. 


30,315 
262, 204 
43, 382 
36, 148 
29, 635 
106,701 
38, 051 
53, 204 
64, 336 
36, 510 
36, 569 

4,273 
28, 144 
34,418 
77, 805 
26, 537 
25,741 
23, 211 
28, 766 
63, 832 
43, 912 
60, 740 
39, 403 

8,488 
65,973 
43, 284 

4, CIO 
45, 365 

9,360 
25, 887 
31,251 
36, 138 
21,656 
17, 390 
121,340 
27, 298 
34, 096 
56,796 
160,915 
47, 626 

8, 825 
49,977 
17, 508 
18, 362 
81,612 
15, 344 
61, 432 


531 


AllGo'lieiiy . 


757 


Arnistroiig 


Kittanning. . ,. 


612 


Beaver 


Beaver 


452 


Bedford 


Bedford. 


. 1, 003 
900 


Berks 




Blair. 


Plollidavsburg. 


510 


Bradford 


Towanda 


1,162 


Bucks 


Dovlestown 


595 


Butler .• . , . 


Butler 


814 


Cambria 


Ebensburg 


666 


Cameron. 


Emporium. 


381 


Carbon 


Mauch Chunk 


402 


Centre . 


Bellefonte.. 


1 227 


Chester 


West Chester 


763 


Clarion 

Clearfield 

Clinton 


Clarion 

Clearfield 

Lock Haven. 


572 

1,130 

857 


Columbia 


Bloomsburg 


479 


Crawford 


Meadville 

Carlisle 


1,005 


Cumberland 


654 


Dauphin 


Harrisburg 


523 


Delaware 


Media , 

Rid"' way. .. 


195 


Elk 


774 


Erie 


Erie 


772 


Fayette 


XJniontown. 


830 


Forest 


Tionesta 


431 


Franklin 


Chambersburg 


756 


Fulton : . . 


M'Connellsburg 

Wavnesburg. 


442 


Oreene. 


620 


Huntingdon 

Indiana 


Huntingdon 

Indiana 


899 
828 


Jefferson 


Brookviile. . 


646 


Juniata 


Miftlmtown. . 


407 


Eancaster .... 


Lancaster. 


973 


Lawrence 


Xew Castle 


376 


Lebanon. 


Lebanon, 


356 


Lehigh 




364 


Luzerne.. 


Wilkesbarre. 


1,350 

l,2ia 

1,007 

666 


Lycoming 

M'lvean . 


Williamsport 

Smethport 

Mercer 


Mercer. .... 


Mifiiin 

Monroe. . 


Lewistown 

Stroudsburg 


377 

695 


Montgomery 

iNlontour .. .\ 

iS'orthampton 


Norristown 


484 


Danville 

Easton 


140 

382 



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Counties of the State — Continued. 



Xames. 


o 

© 
& 


Coanty towns. ^"P^o!*"" ! Ssf 

1 ■ 


Xorthumberland . , \ 1772 

Perry | 1820 

Philadelphia 1 1682 

Pike 1 1814 

Potter 1 1804 

Schuylkill. . .' isn 


Sunburv ! 41,441 462 

New Bloomfield ! 25, 447 476 

Philadelphia 674, 022 130 

Milford , : 8,436 i 631 

Coudersport ...., 11,265 1,071 

Pottsville : 116, 428 840 


Snvder 


1855 


Middleburg i 15, 606 ' 317 




1795 
1847 
1810 
1804 
1813 
1800 
1800 


Somerset. .^ i 28, 226 , 1, 102 


Sullivan 


Laporte 1 6,-191 i 434 


Susquehanna 

Tioga 

Union 


Montrose ! " 37, 523 ^ 828 

Wellsboro' ! 35, 097 ^ 1, 124 

Lewisburg 1 15,565' 315 


Venango 


Franklin 47, 925 658 


"Warren 


Warren ' 23,897 : 914 


Washington 

Wayne 

Westmoreland 

Wyoming 

York. 


1781 
1798 
1773 
1842 
1749 


Washington ! 48, 483 889 

Honesdale \ 33, 188 1 747 

Greensburg i 58, 719 I 1, 046 

Tunkhannock \ 14, 585 | 403 

York 76, 134 ; 921 


Total, QQ counties. 




i 3,521,951 i 45,086 



Note. — The enumeration of 1870 is classified as follows, 
viz : White population, 3,456,609 ; Negroes, 65,294 ; Chi. 
nese and Japanese, 14 ; Indians, 34; total, 3,521,951. 



PENNSYLVANIA. 

Pennsylvania is situated between 39 deg. 43 min. and 42 
deg. north latitude, and 2 deg. 17 min. east, and 3 deg. 81 min. 
west longitude, from Washington. Its mean length is 280.39 
miles ; mean breadth, 158.05 miles ; its greatest length 302-1-1 
miles,- and greatest breadth 175 miles and 192 perches. 

The latitude of Greenwich is 51 deg. 28 min. 39 sec. north, 
and the latitude of Washington 38 deg. 53.3 min. The longi- 
tude of Philadelphia from Greenwich is 75 deg. 18 min. west, 
and the longitude of Greenwich from Washington is 77 deg. 
00.6 min. east. 

The latitude of the capitol at Harrisburg is 40 deg. 16 min. 
north, and the longitude is 76 deg. 53 min. west. 



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The declination of the magnetic needle at the capitol at 
Ilarrisburg, in July, 1862, was 3 deg. 44.5 min. west, and in 
October, 1875, was 4 deg. 53 min. west. 

The above statement has been taken and calculated from the 
best charts and tables known and accessible to the Land Office. 

According to the census of 1870 the mineral products of 
the State were valued at nearly half of those of the entire 
United States. The amount of anthracite coal produced that 
year was 15,650,275 tons, and of bituminous coal, 7,798,518 
tons ;'iron ore, 1,096,486 tons ; petroleum, 171,207,622 gallons. 
The most extensive and valuable coal mines in America are in 
Pennsylvania. The production of coal in 1874 was 32,147,040 
tons, including 21,631,118 of anthracite, 7,712,461 of bitumin- 
ous, 2,303,461 of semi-bituminous and 500,000 of block. 
Nearly half of all the pig-iron made in the United States is the 
product of Pennsylvania. The manufacturing interests of are 
of the highest importance. In 1870 the amount of capital in- 
vested and the number of establishments were larger than in 
any other State, while the value of the products was greater 
than in any other except New York. Large quantities of lum- 
ber are cut in the northern and central parts of the State, the 
chief markets being Williamsport and Lock Haven. The ship- 
ments from those two points during the first six month of 1873 
amounted to 159,884,029 feet. On January 1, 1874, the esti- 
mated amount of lumber at Williamsport comprised 220,961,- 
■922 feet of pine, and 19,872,444 of hemlock, besides large 
quantities of lath and pickets. 

Pennsylvania has two United States ports of entry — Phila- 
delphia and Erie. Pittsburg is a port of delivery in the dis- 
trict of Louisiana. The vast mineral wealth of the State has 
led to a system of internal improvements not excelled by those 
of any other State. In 1826 the State began the construction 
of a line of communication between Philadelphia and Pitts- 
burg, consisting of about 292 miles of canal, and 126 miles of 
railroad. Thjs line was completed in 1831, at a cost of $18,- 
615,663 ; this liability was increased, in consequence of other 
works -undertaken and aided, to $41,294,462. After great 
losses had been sustained the State, in 1857, disposed of its 
entire interest and control in these works. 



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The two most extensive railroad corporations are the Phila- 
delphia and Reading; and the Pennsylvania. The former, 
chartered in 1833, was opened for through trains between 
Philadelphia and Pottsville in 1842. This company now ope- 
rates from fifteen to twenty main lines and branches, compris- 
ing more than seven hundred miles of railroad ; also the 
Schuylkill and Susquehanna canals. The investments of the 
company is estimated at about $125,000,000. The Pennsyl- 
vania is perhaps the most powerful railroad corporation in 
America ; nearly 2,500 miles of road in this State alone are 
operated by it, and its investments in the State are estimated 
at not less than $150,000,000. It also leases a large extent of 
road in other States. The canals, lying wholly or partly in 
Pennsylvania, are 880 miles in length. The receipts in 18^13 
were $2,342,918, and the total expenses, $1,824,915. Total 
cost of canals and fixtures, exlusive of the Pennsylvania, has 
been $36,539,8^9. As an agricultural State it ranks as fourth ; 
as a dairy State it is next to New York. 

Under the new Constitution, which went into effect January 
1, 1874, the Legislature consists -of fifty Senators elected for 
four years, and two hundred and one Kepresentatives chosen 
for two years. Eegular sessions are held biennially, begin- 
ning on the first Tuesday of January, in odd years. Extra 
sessions may be convened by the Governor, but annual ad- 
journed sessions are prohibited after 1818. Members of the 
Legislature receive $1,000 for each session, not exceeding one 
hundred days, and $10 per day necessarily spent after the 
hundred days, (not exceeding fifty days,) and twenty cents 
a mile to and from the capitol. The Executive Department 
consists of a Governor, annual salary, $10,000 ; Lieutenant 
Governor, who is President of the Senate, $3,000; Secretary 
of the Commonwealth, $4,000 ; Attorney General, $3,500 ; 
Auditor General, $3,000 ; State Treasurer, $5,000 ; Secretary 
of Internal Affairs, $3,000; Superintendent of Public Instruc- 
tion, $2,500. The general election is held annually on the 
Tuesday next following the first Monday in November. The 
Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and Secretary of Internal 
Affairs are chosen, by the people, for four years ; the Auditor 
General for three years, and the Treasurer fur two j^ears. The 



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Attorney General, the Secretary of the Commonwealth and 
Superintendent of Public Instruction are appointed for four 
years by the Governor, with the consent of two-thirds of the 
Senate. 



WILLIAM PENN. 

Admiral Penu was one of the most famous of old England's 
naval heroes. To liquidate a debt of £16,000 due the Admi- 
ral for services and advances to his country, the English mon- 
arch, Charles II, granted in 1661 to his son the charter for 28,- 
000,000 of acres, constituting the State of Pennsylvania. 

His life was sadly clouded at its close. Few of the cher- 
ished aspirations of his manhood were realized. To the great 
misfortune of himself and his colony his cherished purpose of 
making Penusylvania his. permanent home was never accom- 
plished. Its legislative Assembly, three-fourths of the time, 
acted in opposition to his wishes. His revenues from his col- 
ony came in slowly ; his expenditures at home were heavy ; 
his English steward proved false ; his creditors became impa- 
tient, and he was confined for months in a debtor's apartment. 
The generosity of his friends secured his discharge, only to 
find that these accumulated misfortunes had brought on an at' 
tack of apoplexy, from which he never recovered. For seven 
years he lived lost to the world, and died June 30, 1718, and 
was buried on the 5th of July, at Jordans, Buckinghamshire, 
England. The locality was discontinued as a place of worship 
about the year 1787. The author of the " Shrines of Bucks," 
writing of his visit to the grave of Penn, says : " Entering 
the grave-yard we found a spot where a number of little 
mounds marked the resting-places of Penn and his family. 
Here no monumental marble, or even a simple headstone, marks 
the spot where the founder of Pennsylvania found at last that 
rest and freedom from the persecution he had exi3erienced in 
his life- time. The fifth mound from the doorway of the little 
chapel was the one beneath which, and between his two wives, 
he was lowly laid. Jordans has not been inaptly styled the 
' Westminster Abbey of the Friends.' " 



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Colonel John W. Forney, who recently visited his grave, 
writes : " 1 never supposed that my experience would be so 
full of interest ; nor, indeed, that the grave of William Penn 
would be found in a spot so obscure, or that his name would 
be forgotten in the very neighborhood where he lived and died. 
I am not without hope that the Friends of Philadelphia will 
take steps to remove the remains of their greatest leader to 
the State that bears his name, and to the city he founded in 
1682. There is no place in the world so fitting as Fairmount 
Park, and no time more appropriate for the ceremony than 
the Centennial year. In any case, what I have written may 
quicken discussion and inquiry. The whole story of William 
Penn is the romance of truth, and there is not a region in the 
globe in which it is so well illustrated as in the forty miles 
around Philadelphia, including part of New Jersey and Dela- 
ware.'' 



THE STATE AKSENAL. 
The State Arsenal is located on the square between Herr 
and Broad streets, and Eighteenth and Nineteenth streets. East 
Harrisburg, just inside the city limits. The location is ad- 
mirably chosen. The ground occupied is six acres, partly 
covered by a natural growth of forest trees. The building is 
one hundred and fifty by fifty-four feet in the main, and seventy- 
five feet in the center, which is surmounted with a tower one 
hundred feet in height. The arsenal was built in 1874, from a 
design by Mr. L. M. Simons, of Harrisburg, at a cost of $26,- 
S50. It is connected by wire with the Adjutant General's De- 
partment, at the Capitol, and with the Western Union Tele- 
graph, 



BANKS. 

The banking interest of Harrisburg is represented by nine 
banking houses, four of which are National, and five private 
and State Institutions, affording good facilities for securing 
-capital to carry forward any enterprise that will advance the 
interests of individuals, city or State. 



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City Bank. — President, Samuel S. Bigler ; Vice President,. 
John A. Bigler ; Cashier, A. L. Robinson. Organized Decem- 
ber, 1861 ; capital $100,000. No. 300 Market street. 

Dauphin Deposit Bank — James M'Cormick, Cashier. Incor- 
porated 1834; capital $100,000. No. 213 Market street. 

Dougherty Beos. & Co., Bankers^ 312 Market street. 

Farmers' Bank of Harrisburg — Daniel Eppley, President y 
capital $100,000. No. 21 North Third street. 

First National Bank — Wm. Calder, President; George II. 
Small, Cashier; capital $100,000. North Second, on N. E. 
corner of Walnut. 

Harrisburg National Bank — Dr. George W. Reily, Presi- 
dent ; Cashier, James W. AVeir ; capital $300,000. No. 16. 
South Market Square. 

Mechanics' Bank — Cashier, Jacob C. Bomberger ; Teller, 
George Z. Kunkel ; capital and surplus $100,000. Market, 
south-east corner of Third street. 

Real Estate Savings Bank— David Mumma, President; El- 
lis Mumma, Cashier. 

State Bank — C. L. Bowman, President ; II. A. Sturgeon, 
Cashier. Incorporated 1870 ; capital $200,000. 



THE CEMETERIES. 

Mt. Kalmia. — This most beautiful resting place of the dead 
is situate on the heights overlooking the city; the main en- 
trance being from East State street, in East Harrisburg, di- 
rectly east from the capitol, and about a half mile distant. 
The natural beauties of the place are of a high order, and 
those, with the artistic effects of the ornamented vaults, the 
embellishments of the inclosed lots and the varied and beauti- 
ful monuments, combine to reward in abundant measure the 
time and trouble expended in a visit. The act of incorpora- 
tion v^as passed February 14, 1845, and the grounds were 
dedicated September 30. The following were the incorpora- 
tors : Henry Walters, John Roberts, Henry Buehler, Her- 
man Alricks, Luther Reily, Hamilton Alricks, James Peacock, 
Valentine Hummel, John C. Bucher, William Dock and James 
M'Cormick, and under the title of the " Harrisburg Cemetery 



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Association.'' Hours of admission for visitors, from sunrise 
to sunset. 

The other burial grounds are the Free, or Colored, and the 
Catholic Cemetery. 

A new enterprise, recently projected, gives promise of the 
.establishment of a new and first class cemetery, in all its ap- 
pointments, located beyond the Arsenal. 



DAUPHIN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 

The society was formed in 1869, and numbers about fifty 
members. Its ofScers are : President, Hon. A. Boyd Hamil" 
ton ; Vice Presidents, Hon. Hamilton Alricks, Hon. Samue^ 
Landis, Dr. Benjamin J. Wiestling ; Secretary, G-eorge W. 
Buehler ; Librarians, Rudolph F. Kelker, Esq., Hon. John B. 
Linn; Treasurer, John A. Weir, Esq. ; Corresponding Secre- 
tary, Rev. Thomas H. Robinson, D. D. The meetings of the so- 
ciety are held monthly. The society is in a deservedly flourish- 
ing condition. 



PAXTON CHURCH. 

^ This church and surroundings is worthy the attention of 
visitors. It is located about three miles out on the Lebanon 
pike. It was organized prior to 1725. The present stone 
edifice was erected in or about the year 1740, on the site of 
the original log church. Here the pious Pastor Elder preached 
with his rifle by his side, and served as Colonel of the provin- 
cial forces in the French and Indian wars. Here rest the re- 
mains of Elder, John Harris, Jun., founder of Harrisburg, 
William Maclay, Gen. Simpson, Gen. Crouch, heroes of the 
revolution, the M'Clures, the Forsters, the Gilmores, the 
Grays, the Mills, the Rutherfords, the Espys, and many others 
prominent in our early history. 



THE HARRISBURG CITY GRAYS. 
This company was originally organized in 1861, as the 
"First City Zouaves,'' by Captain DeB. Randolf Keim. It 
served with great credit during the war as Company' A, One 



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Hundred and Twenty-seventh Pennsylvania Volunteers, F. As- 
bury Awl captain. On its muster roll in June, 1863, thirty- 
two of its members were commissioned in the regular and vol- 
unteer service. Re-organized in 1869, it at once took high 
rank amongst the military of Pennsylvania. On the promotion 
of Captain J. Wesley Awl to the rank of lieutenant colonel, 
A. A. G-., and chief of division staff, First Lieutenant Thomas 
F. Maloney, the present commandant, was elected captain, and 
shortly afterwards the company adopted as its uniform that of 
the Seventh National Guard, and also changed its name to the 
Harrisburg ''City Grays.'' On the re-organization of the Penn- 
sylvania National Guard it was assigned as Company D, Eighth 
regiment. 

In 1874 the Grays built a fine, commodious armory, corner of 
Second and Forster streets, and are, in all respects, a fixed and 
favorite institution in Harrisburg. The company is thoroughly 
drilled and disciplined. General Latta, Adjutant General of 
Pennsylvania, in his last annual report, says of it : ''For drill 
and discipline it now stands the equal of any company in the 
State ; for soldierly bearing, deportment, appearance, neatness 
and cleanliness of arms, it is unexceptionable ; with all details, 
requirements and equipments fully complete.'' The Grays as- 
sisted in quelling the Willlamspot lumber riot in 1872, and 
served two tours of duty in the Schu^dkill coal region during 
the riots of 1876, the company responding almost to a man, at 
a heavy pecuniary and business sacrifice to the individual mem- 
bers. The Grays have participated in celebrations in the prin- 
cipal cities of Pennsylvania, always compelling attention and 
admiration by their drill, esprit de corps, gentlemanly bearing 
and conduct. At the Philadelphia Centennial parade, July 4, 
they were highly complimented by military men who witnessed 
their manoeuvering. The company is on a permanent basis, 
and bids fair to live a long life of usefulness. 



THE HARRISBURG HOSPITAL. | 

This Hospital was established in 1873. It is located on the 
-north side of Mulberry street, near Front. Its Board of Man- 
agement, from the beginning, has consisted of James M'Cor- 



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mick, Jr., President; A. Bojd Hamilton, Secretary ; J. Don- 
ald Cameron, Henry M'Cormick, Wm. Calder, David C. Kolp, 
D. W. Gross, Rudolph F. Kelker, Daniel Eppley, James Wis- 
ter, Henry Gilbert, R. A. Lamberton, Managers; and James 
W. Weir, Treasurer. It has- no endowment, but is liberally 
supported, and has met a requirement very much needed at a 
railroad centre of the importance of that of Harrisburg. 

Application for admission to be made to the attending man- 
agers at the hospital Wednesday and Saturday afternoons at 
2:30. 

Persons injured by accident received at all hours, provided 
they are brought to the hospital within twenty-four hours after 
its occurrence. 

Poor persons receive medical attention and medicine free of 
charge. 



PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 
There are seventy-two public schools— 2 high, 1 grammar, 
9 intermediate, 22 secondary and 32 primary schools. 

There are alRO numerous excellent Select Schools and Semi- 



naries. 



IIARRISBURG POST OFFICE. 
(No. 314 and 316 Market st.) 
Open on Sundays from IJ to 9 o'clock A. M. 
Drop Letter Boxes are attached to lamp posts at most street 
corners, and at prominent hotels. 
M. W. M'Alarney, P. M. 



SYSTEM OF NUMBERING HOUSES. 
One hundred numbers are allotted to each square or block, 
commencing on the Susquehanna river, Front street, running 
east, and at Market street running north and south. The even 
numbers are on the north side, and the odd numbers on the 
south side, on the streets running east and west; and the 
even numbers are on the west side, and the odd numbers on 
the east side, for the streets running north and south. 



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SOCIETIES. 

MASONIC. 

Perseverance Lodge, No. 21, A. Y. M., meets in Masonic 
Hall, second Monday evening of each month. 

Eobert Burns Lodge, No. 464, A. Y. M., meets in Masonic 
Hall, third Thursday evening of each month. 

Perseverance Chapter, No. 21, H. K. A. M., meets in Ma- 
sonic Hall, first Monday evening of each month. 

Pilgrim Commandery, Knights Templar, No. 11, meets in 
Masonic Hall, first Thursday of each month. 

Harrisburg Sovereign Consistory, meets in Masonic Hall, 
third Monday of each month. 

Harrisburg Council, No. 11, K. S. and S. E. M., meets in 
Masonic Hall, fourth Monday of each month. 

Chosen Friends' Lodge, No. 43, A. Y. M., (colored,) meets 
at Odd Fellows' Hall every alternate Thursday. 

Geary Lodge, No. 42, A. Y. M., (colored,) meets first Mon- 
day evening of each month in Masonic Hall, Tanner's avenue. 

Morning Star Lodge, No. 47, A. Y. M., (colored,) meets 
second Monday evening of each month in Masonic Hall, Tan- 
ner's avenue. 

King Cyrus Chapter, No. 21, H. R. A. M., (colored,) meets 
at Masonic Hall, Tanner's avenue, the second Tuesday even- 
ing of each month. 

Paxton Lodge, No. 16, A. Y. M. (colored,) meets at Ma- 
sonic Hall, Tanner's avenue, the last Monday evening of each 
month. 

ODD FELLOWS. 

Harrisburg Lodge, No. 68, I. 0. 0. F., meets in Exchange 
Building every Wednesday evening. Degree night, second 
meeting night of each month. 

State Capital Lodge, No. 70, I. 0. 0. F., meets in Odd Fel- 
lows' Hall, 304 N. Second street, every Tuesday evening. 
Degree night, first meeting night of each month. 

Dauphin Lodge, No. 160, I. 0. 0. F., meets at 215 Market 
street every Thursday evening. Degree night, second meet- 
ing night of each month. 

Eintracht Lodge, No. 660, I. 0. 0. F., (German,) meets at 
Odd Fellows' Hall, 804 North Second street, every Friday 



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evening. Degree night, second meeting night of each month. 

Lamberton Lodge, No. 708, I, 0. 0. F., meets at No. 215 
Market street, every Saturday evening. 

Dauphin Encampment, No. 10, I. 0. 0. F., meets at No. 
215 Market street, first and third Friday evenings of each 
month. 

Olive encampment, No. 56, I. 0. 0. F., meets at Odd Fel*-- 
lows' Hall, 304 North Second street, first and third Wednes«f 
day evenings of each month. 

Miriam Rebecca Lodge, No. 12, D. of R., meets at No. 215 
Market street, the second Friday evening of each month. 

GRAND UNITED ORDER OF ODD FELLOWS. 

Brotherly Love Lodge, No. 896, G. U. 0. 0. F., (colored,) 
meets at Odd Fellows' Hall every Monday evening. Degree 
night, first Wednesday night of each month. 

Hope of Friend Lodge, No. 1453, G. U. 0. O.'F., (colored,) 
meets at Odd Fellows' Hall every Tuesday evening. 

Grand Masters' Council, No. T, G. U. 0. 0. F., (colored,) 
meets at Odd Fellows' Hall, third Wednesday evening of each 
month. 

Ruth Degree Lodge, G. U. 0. 0. F., (colored,) meets at Odd 
Fellows' Hall second Wednesday evening of each monthv 

b'nai b'rith. 
Salem Lodge, No. 26, I. 0. B. B. (Israelite), meets at No, 
215 Market street, every Sunday evening. 

IMPROVED ORDER OF RED MEN. 

Cornplanter Tribe, No. 61, I. 0. R. M., meets at Odd Fel« 
lows' Hall every Monday evening. 

Octorara Tribe, No. 91, I. 0. R. M., meets in Rebman^s 
building, Broad street near Third, every Tuesday evening. 

Susquehanna Tribe, No. 12, I. 0. R. M., meets in Barr'shall 
every Friday evening. 

AMERICAN MECHANICS. 

Fulton Council, No. 35, 0. U. A. M., meet in Wyeth's hall, 
second floor, every Monday evening. 

Harrisburg Star Council, No. 61, 0. U. A. M., meets in Wy- 
eth's hall every Wednesday evening. 



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Harrisburg Council, No. 106, 0. U. A. M., meets in College 
Block every Tuesday evening. 

Eureka Council, No. 148,- 0. U. A. M., meets in Exchange 
Building every Saturday evening. 

Harrisburg Degree Council, No. 14, 0. U. A. M., meets first 
and third Saturday evenings of each month at Wyeth hall. 

Eureka Council, No. 38, Jr. 0. U. A. M., meets at Wyeth's 
hall, 216 Market street, every Friday evening. 

Fulton Council, No. 52, 0. U. D. A., meets every Tuesday 
evening at Wyeth's hall. 

BROTHERHOOD OF THE UNION. 

Harrisburg Circle, No. 31, B. U. (H. F.) C. of A., meets in 
Exchange building every Friday evening. 

Susquehanna Circle, No. 51, B. U. (H. F.) C. of A., meets 
every Wednesday evening in Barr's hall. 

State Capital Circle, No. 29, B. U. (H. F.) C of A., meets 
in Exchange Building every Monday evening. 

Olive Branch, No. 1, H. C. (H. F.) C. of A., meets every 
Saturday evening in Exchange Building. 

PATRIOTIC ORDER SONS OF AMERICA. 

Keystone Commandery, No. 1, M. A. P. 0. S. of A., meets 
second and fourth Saturday evening of each month in College 
Block. 

Washington Camp, No. 16, P. 0. S. of A., meets at Segel- 
baum's building every Monday evening. 

Washington Camp, No. 102, P. 0. S of A., meets in College 
Block, third floor, every Friday evening, 

Washington Camp, No. 218, P. 0. S. of A., meets in Eeb- 
man's building, Broad street near Third, every Wednesday 
evening. 

TEMPERANCE. 

Washington Lodge, No. 1, I. 0. of G. T., meets in Barr's 
hall every Tuesday evening. 

State Capital Lodge, No. '791, I. 0. of G. T., meets every 
Friday evening. East State street, near Spruce. 

William Howard Bishop's Lodge, I. 0. of G. T:, meets every 
Tuesday evening at Elder street, corner Briggs. 



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KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS. 

Phoenix Lodge, No. 59, K. of P., meets in Exchange Build- 
ing every Tuesday evening. 

Bayard Lodge, No. 150, K. of P., meets at No. 215 Market 
street every Wednesday evening. 

Ivanhoe Lodge, No. 93, K. of P., meets at Wyeth's hall 
every Thursday evening. 

KNIGHTS OF THE MYSTIC CHAIN. 

St. John's Castle, No. 17, A. 0. K. of the M. C, meets every 
Tuesday evening at Wyeth's Hall. 

Franklin Castle, No. 24, A. 0. K. of the M. C, meets every 
Thursday evening at Barr's Hall. 

MISCELLANEOUS. 

Post No. 58, G. A. R., meets in College Block every Friday 
evening. 

Patriarch Grange, No. 42, P. of H,, meets every Wednesday 
evening in College Block. 

Lily of The Valley Lodge, Masonic Ladies, meet in Ex- 
change Building every Wednesday evening. 

Golden Rule Council, No. 12, Sovereigns of Industry, meets 
every Thursday evening in College Block, Third street. 

Harrisburg Assembly, No. 13, A. 0. of M. P., meets the 
fourth Monday in each month in College Block. 

Harrisburg Beneficial Society meets at the First Lutheran 
Church on Fourth"" street the last Saturday of each month. 

Harrisburg Steuben Bund, No. — , V. 0. V. B., meets at 
Exchange Building every Tuesday evening. 

Harris Grove, No. 9, U. A. 0. D., meets at Exchange Build- 
ing every Monday evening. 

Central Lodge, No. J 9, A. 0, U. W., meets in College Block 
every Saturday evening. 

Keystone Grove, No. 15, A. O. F. D., meets at Exchange 
Building every Thursday evening. 

Paxton Grove, No 6, I. 0. F. D., meets at College Block 
every Thursday evening. 

Harrisburg Typographical Union, No. 14, meels in Court 
House second Saturday evening of each month. 



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LIST OF THE GOVERNORS OF THE COLONIES ON THE 
DELAWARE, OF THE PROVINCE AND OF THE STATE. 

DOMINION OF THE S WILDES, DUTCH AND ENGLISH. 

UNDER THE SWEDES. 

Peter Minuit « 1633 

Peter Hollander 1641 

John Printz 1643 

John Pappegoya, (Printz's son-in-law). 1653 

Johan Claudius Rysingh 1654 

[Captured by Peter Stuyvesant, 1655.] 

UNDER THE DUTCH. 

Deryck Schmidt, pro tern 1655 

John Paul Jacquet 1655 

[165t to 1662, colony divided into city and company.] 

Jacob Alricks, (city) 165T 

Alex. D'Hinoyossa, (city) 1659 

Goeran Van Dyke, (company) 1657 

Wm. Beekman, (company) 1658 

[1662, Colony united.] 

Wm. Beekman 1662 

Alex. D'Hinoyossa 1663 

[Captured by the English, 1664.] 

UNDER THE ENGLISH. 

Col. Richard Nichols, Governor 1664 

Robert Carr, Deputy Governor 1664 

Col. Francis Lovelace 1667 

[Re-captured by the Dutch, 1673.] 

Anthony Colve, Governor. 1673 

Peter Alricks, Deputy Governor. 1673 

[Re-captured by the English, 1674.] 

UNDER THE ENGLISH. 

Sir Edmund Andross ...'.. 1674 

THE PROPRIETARY GOVERNMENT. 

William Markham, Deputy Governor 1681 

William Penn, Proprietor 1682 

The Council, Thomas Lloyd, President 1684 

Five Commissioners appointed by Penn 1688 



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John Blackwell, Deputy Governor 1688. 

The Council, Thomas Lloyd, President. . 1690 

Thomas Lloyd, D. G., of Province 1691 

William Markham, D. G., lower counties 1691 

Benjamin Fletcher, Governor of New York, Governor.. . 1693 

William Markham, Lieutenant Governor 1693 

William Markham, Deputy Governor 1695 

William Penn. Proprietor. .,...- 1699 

Andrew Hamilton, Deputy Governor, died 1701 

The Council, Edward Shippen, President 1703 

John Evans, Deputy Governor 1704 

Charles Gookin, Deputy Governor 1709 

Sir William Keith, Deputy Governor 1717 

Patrick Gordon, Deputy Governor 1726 

The Council, James Logan, President ■ 1736 

Georg-e Thomas, Deputy Governor 1738 

The Council, Anthony Palmer, President 1747 

James Hamilton, Deputy Governor. 1748 

Kobert Hunter Morris, Deputy Governor. 1754 

William Denny, Deputy Governor 1756 

James Hamilton, Deputy Governor 1759 

John Penn, Lieutenant Governor 1763 

The Council, James Hamilton, President 1771 

Richard Penn, Lieutenant Governor 1771 

John Penn, Lieutenant Governor 1776 

IN THE REVOLUTION. 

The Committee of Safety, Benjamin Franklin, chairman^ 
from September, 1776, to March, 1777. 

PRESIDENTS OF THE SUPREME EXECUTIVE COUNCIL. 

Thomas Wharton, Jr March 5, 1717 

Joseph Reed Dec. 22, 1778 

William. Moore. Nov. 15, 1781 

John Dickson Nov. 7, 1782 

Benjamin Franklin Oct. 17, 1785 

Thomas Mifflin Nov. 5, 1788 

VICE PHESIDENTS. 

George Bryan , March 5, 1777 

Matthew Smith Oct. 11, 17t9 

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William Mo ore Nov. 15, 17t^ 

James Potter Nov. 15, 1781 

James Ewing Nov. 1, 1182 

James Irvine Nov. 6, 1*784 

Charles Biddle Oct. 10, 1785 

Peter Muhlenberg Oct. 31, 1787 

David Redick Oct. 14,1788 

George Ross Nov. 5, 1788 

GOVERNORS UNDER THE CONSTITUTION OF 1790. 

Thomas Mifflin Dec. 21, 1790 

Thomas M'Kean Dec. 17, 1799 

Simon Snyder Dec. 20, 1808 

William Findlay Dec. 16, 1817 

Joseph Hiester Dec. 19, 1820 

John Andrew Shulze Dec. 16, 1823 

George Wolf Dec. 15, 1829 

Joseph Ritner Dec. 15, 1835 

GOVERNORS UNDER THE CONSTITUTION OF 1S38. 

David R. Porter Jan. 15, 1839 

Francis R. Shunk Jan. 21, 1845 

William P. Johnston, (vice Shunk, deceased,) July 26, 1848 

William Bigler Jan. 20, 1852 

James Pollock Jan. 16, 1855 

William F. Packer Jan. 19, 1858 

Andrew G. Curtin Jan. 15, 1861 

John W. Geary Jan. 15, 1867: 

John F Hartranft Jan. 21, 1873 

GOVERNOR UNDER THE CONSTITUTION OF 1873. 

John F.' Hartranft Jan. 18, 1876 

LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR UNDER CONSTITUTION OF 1873. 
John Latta Jan. 19, 1875 



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PRESIDENTS AND VICE PRESIDENTS OP UNITED STATES- 

PRESIDENTS. 



: t 


Name. 


Where Feom. 


ii 

Term of Office. 


1789.. 
1797 


George Washington 

John Adams. . . . . 


Virginia 

Massachusetts 

A'^irginia 


8 years. 
4 years. 
8 years. 
8 years. 
8 years. 
4 years. 
8 years. 
4 years. 
1 month. 


1801.. 


Thomas Jefterson 

James Madison 


1809 


Virginia 


1817.. 


James Monroe 


Virginia 


1824.. 
1829.. 
1837.. 
184] 


John Quincy Adams 

Andrew Jackson 

Martin Van Buren 

Wm. Henry Harrison^. . 
John Tyler 


Massachusetts 

Tennessee 

New York 

Ohio 


1841 


Virginia 


3 yrs. 11 mos. 

4 years. 

1 yr. 4 mo. 5 d. 

2 yrs. 7 m. 26 d. 
4 years. 

4 years. 

4 vrs. 1 m. 10 d. 


1845.. 

1849.. 
1850.. 
1853.. 
1857.. 
1861 


James Knox Polk 

Zachary Taylorf 

Millard Fiimore 

Franklin Pierce 

James Buchanan 

Abraham Lincoln J 

Andrew Johnson 

Ulj^sses S. Grant 


Tennessee 

Louisiana 

New York 

New Hampshire . . 

Pennsylvania 

Illinois . 


1865.. 
1869.. 


Tennessee 

Illinois 


3 yrs. 10 m. 20 d. 
8 years. 



VICE PRESIDENTS. 



Year of quali- 
fication. 


Name. 


Where From. 


1789 


John Adams 


Massachusetts. 


1797 


Thomas Jefferson 


Virginia. 


1801 


Aaron Burr 


New York. 


1804 


George Clifton 


New York. 


1813 


Elbridge Gerrv 


Massachusetts. 


1817 


Daniel D. Tompkins 


New York. 


1824 


John C. Calhoun 


South Carolina. 


1833 


Martin Van Buren. 


New York. 


1837 


Richard M. Johnson 


Kentucky. 
Virginia. 
New Jersey. 
Pennsylvania. 
New York. 


1841 


John Tyler 


1842 


Samuel L. Southard 5 


1845 


George M. Dallas 


1849 


Millard Fiimore. ... . . . . . 


1851 


William R. King§ 


Alabama. 


1853 . ... 


David R. Achison§ 


Missouri. 


1855 


Jesse D. Bright§ 


Indiana. 


1857 


John C . Breckenridge 

Hannibal Hamilton 

Andrew Johnson .... 


Kentucky. 


1861 


Maine. 


1865 


Tennessee. 


1865 


Lafayette S. Foster§ ' 


Connecticut. 


1866 


Benjamin F. Wade§ 


Ohio. 


1869 


Schuyler Colfax 


Indiana. 


1873. 


Henry Wilson || 


Massachusetts. 


1875 


Thomas W. Ferry 


Michigan. 



* Died in office, April 4, 1841, when Vice P) esident Tyler succeeded liim . 
t Died in office, July 9, 1850, when Vice President Fiimore succeeded him. 
i Assassinated April 14, 1865, when Vice President Johnson succee led him. 
§ Ex-officio as President pro tempore of the Senate 
11 Died in office November, 1875. ■ 



68 



VOTE OF PENNSYLVANIA 



Official Vote of Pennsylvania, Nov. 5, IS1'2, ey Counties, for 
President of the United States. 



Counties. 


Grant. 


Greeley. 


1 

i Counties. 


Grant. 


Greeley. 


Adams . 


2,735 
25,846 
4,297 
3,517 
2,901 
7,741 
4, 251 
7,452 
6, 613 
4,015 
2,841 

554 
2,452 
3,142 
9,249 
2,658 
1,970 
2,003 
2,009 
6,938 
3,895 
6,954 
4,231 

679 
7,502 
3,881 
4, 301 

737 

360 
1,852 
3,099 
4,386 
2,253 
1, 306 
14,288 
3,429 


2,580 
9, 055 
2,078 
1,798 
2,165 
10,201 
2,183 
3,563 
5,445 
2,534 
2,544 

340 
1,946 
2,695 
3,802 
2,304 
2, 329 
1,758 
3,001 
4,887 
3,557 
3, 331 
1,166 

753 
4,787 
2,663 
3,136 

807 

155 
2,829 
1,805 
1,266 
1,156 
1,265 
5,717 

945 


Lebanon 

Lehigli 

Luzerne 

Lycoming 

M'Kean 

Mercer 


4,171 
5,342 
12, 966 
4,423 
1,040 
5,517 
1,685 

787 
8,080 
1,384 
4,841 
4,271 
2,563 
68, 792 

339 
1,463 
8,657 
1,803 
3,495 

440 
4,536 
5,730 
1,997 
4,780 
3,090 
5,134 
2,463 
5,412 
1,552 
6,299 


2,0)5 


Allegheny 

Armstrong 

Beaver ... ... 


5, 622 

10,904 

3,837 


Bedford 


618 


Berks. 


3,411 


Blair 


Mitnin 


1,127 


Bradford 

Bucks. 

Butler 


Monroe 

Montgomery.. . 

Montour 

Northampton. . 
Northumberl'd 
Perrv 


2,205 
5,113 
1, 333 


Cambria 

Cameron 


6, 155 
3,356 
1,741 


Centre 


Philadelphia... 
Pike 


23,407 


'^^h ester. 


797 


Clarion.. 


Potter 

Schuylkill 

Snyder 

Somerset 

Sullivan. .^ 

Susquehanna.. 
Tioga 


554 


Clearfield 

Clinton 


6,983 
915 


Columbia 

Crawford 

Cumberland 

Dauphin 

Delav»'are 

Elk 


1, 383 

571 

2,907 

1,777 


Union 

Venango 

Warren 

Washington . . . 
Wayne 


916 

2,986 


Erie , 

Fayette 


1, 538 

3,223 


Franklin. 

Fulton 

Forest 


2,152 


Westmoreland. 

Wyoming 

York 


4,719 
1,339 




6,753 


Huntingdon 

Indiana 

Jefferson 


Total 

Majority... 




349, 689 
211,961 


211,961 


Lancaster 

Lawrence 


137, 728 





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Official Vote for Goveenor, 1872 and 1875, by Counties 







1872. 






1875. 




COTJN^TIES. 


a 




9 


1 


2 






Adams. .... 


2,765 
25,771 
4,434 
3,685 
2,973 
7,898 
4,263 
7,443 
7,278 
3, 985 
2,823 

572 
2,444 
3,292 
9,386 
2,727 
1,995 
2,018 
2,110 
7,031 
4,176 
7,450 
4,339 

628 
7, 467 
3,954 

418 
4, 505 

797 
1,795 
3,249 
4,472 
2,407 
1, 352 
13. 774 
3; 426 
4,285 
5,355 
12, 341 
4, 639 
1,025 
5,573 
1,786 

658 
8,454 
1,378 
4,880 
4,314 
2,752 


3,038 
16, 490 
3,469 
2,882 
2,977 
13,947 
3,244 
4, 434 
7,658 
3,440 
3,530 
531 
2, 533 
3,712 
6,510 
3,583 
3,432 
2,632 
3,826 
6,473 
4,614 
5,113 
2,638 
1,193 
5,271 
4,631 
340 
4,182 
1,125 
3,450 
2,690 
2,146 
2,247 
1,739 
9,064 
1,705 
2,824 
6,895 
14, 433 
5, 056 
950 
4,598 
1,765 
2, 839 
8,463 
1,623 
8, 121 
4, 363 
1 2,514 


4 

4 

11 

97 

i' 

141 
4 

■""26' 

26 
7 

98' 



2 
13 
16 

f 

2 
25 
21 

i' 

75 

30 

16 

215 

i2' 

62' 



25 

11 
60 

....... 


2,477 
18, 707 
3,605 
3,086 
2,906 
6,864 
3,711 
6,526 
6,713 
3,796 
2,325 

552 
2,347 
2,097 
7,015 
2,196 
1,819 
1,771 
1,643 
6, 146 
3,603 
6,574 
4,075 

503 
6,699 
3,472 

376 
4,074 

684 
1,517 
2,546 
3,640 
1, 923 
1,198 
12,725 
2, 335 
3, 859 
4, 630 
9,899 
3,488 

940 

4,911 

1. 446 

'6S2 

8, 364 

1, 002 
4, 364 
3,691 

2, 429 


3,009 

13, 246 

3,121 

2,702 
3,099 
13,433 
3,166 
4,265 
7,000 
3,891 
3,399 
476 
2,728 
3,504 
5,005 
3,221- 

3, 273 
2, 598 
3, 757 
5,526 
4,309 
4, 704 
2, 079 

1, 055 
4,744 
4,299 

319 
3, 954 

981 
2,699 
2, 605 
1,795 
2,248 
1,771 
7,581 
1,427 
2,608 
6,758 
11,135 

4, 641 
976 

4, 267 
1,586 

2, 630 
8, 339 
1,332 
7, 248 
4,567 
2, 448 


22 


Allegheny 


1,585 


Arnistrouff. 


196 


Beaver 


301 


Bedford . 


27 


Berks 


21 


Blair 


264 


Bradford 


466 


Bucks . 


280 


Butler 


503 


Cambria 


117 


Cameron. 


18 


Carbon. 


6 


Centre. 


590 


Chester 

Clarion 


739 
157 


Cleartield.. 


53 


Clinton 


91 


Columbia 


107 


Crawford 


131 


Cumberland 


6G 


Dauphin 


53 


Delaware 


50 


Elk... 


8 


Erie 


120 


Eavette 


98 


Forest 


37 


Franklin 


95 


Fulton. 


12 


Greene. 


9 


Fluntiugdon 

Indiana. . 


498 
400 


Jefferson. 


458 


Juniata 


143 


Liancaster 


515 


Ijawrence 


676 


Lebanon 


17 


Eehig'h. 


3 


Euzerne.. 


503 


Lycoming 

M'Kean 


97 
12 


jNIercer. 


502 


Mifflin 


50 


Alonroe .. 


6 


Montgomery 


244 


?.rontour 

Northampton 

Northumberland 

Perry 


35 

22 
74 
52 



70 

Vote for Governor — Continued. 



Counties. 



Philadelphia. . . 

Pike 

Potter , 

Schuylkill..... 

Snyder 

Somerset 

Sullivan 

Susquehanna . . 

Tioga 

Union.. 

Venango 

Warren 

Washington... . 

Wayne. 

Westmoreland . 

Wyoming 

York 



Total. 353, 387 317, 760 



69, 278 
246 
1,466 
8,980 
1,906 
8,430 
431 
4,333 
5,604 
2,069 
5, 071 
3,176 
5,294 
2,119 
5,581 
1,561 
6,400 



1872. 



48, 841 
1,134 
1,042 
9,378 
1, 872 
1,802 
744 
8,403 
2,376 
1,374 
4,415 
2,333 
4,992 
3,030 
6,475 
1,791 
8,388 



24 



1875. 



65,262 
434 
1, 223 
7,699 
1,701 
2,989 
336 
3,517 
3,933 
1,784 
2,958 
2,057 
4,917 
1,854 
4,957 
1,365 
5,263 



1,259 304,175 292,145 



CJq 



47,980 
1,056 
1,010 
9,087 
1,869 
1,689 
719 
2,951 
1,909 
1,177 
2,940 
1,740 
4,763 
2,185 
6,242 
1,610 
8,285 



Vote of Harrisburg. 



For Governoe, 1875. 



Foe Mayor, 1876. 



Waeds. 



First.... 
Second. . 
Third... 
Fourth. . 
Fifth. . . . 
Sixth.... 
Seventh 
Eighth. . 
Ninth. . . 



Total. 



Maiority. 



387 
187 
317 
403 
273 
351 
227 
292 
218 



2, 655 
1,931 



724 



152 
163 

228 
256 
189 
315 
283 
179 
166 



1,931 



Wards. 




1 


First 


828 
191 
812 
880 
277 
889 
281 
261 
224 


109 


Second. 


127 


Third 


163 


Fourth. 


195 


Fifth 


170 


Sixth 


223 


Seventh 


171 


Eighth. . . 


144 


Ninth. 


180 


Total 




2,543 
1,432 


1,482 


Majority 




1,111 





71 



TIME OF MEETIiNG OP ASSEMBLY. 
General Assembly meets on the first Tuesday of January. 
The House of Representatives is called to order at twelve 
o'clock M.; and the Senate at twelve o'clock M. 



ELECTION OF UNITED STATES SENATOR. 

Persons to represent Pennsylvania in the Senate of the 
United States are elected by the Legislature in the following 
manner : 

Each House votes separately " on the third Tuesday of Janu- 
ary, at three o'clock P. M., if the Legislature shall have or- 
ganized before the second Tuesday." 

On the day following, at twelve o'clock M., the two Houses 
meet in joint convention, and the journals of the two Houses 
are then read and certificates signed. 

Nominations must be made and teller elected two days prior, 
and communicated to each House. 

Present Senators, Simon Cameron, Wm. A. Wallace. 



GOVERNMENTAL DIRECTORY. 



GOVERNOR AND HEADS OF DEPARTMENTS, WITH THEIR 
PLACES OF RESIDENCE IN HARRISBURQ. 

GOVERNOR. 

John F. Hartranft, Montgomery county. Executive Man- 
sion, Front street above Pine. 

LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR. 

John Latta, Westmoreland county. Bolton's Hotel, Second 
street. 

SECRETARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH. 

Matthew S. Quay, Beaver county. Lochiel, Third and Mar- 
ket streets. 

DEPUTY SECRETARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH. 

John B. Linn, Centre county. Miss Allen's, No. 404 North 
Third street. 



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ATTORNEY GENERAL. 

Georg-e Lear, Bucks county. Lochiel, Third and Market 
streets. 

DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL. 

Lyman D. Gilbert, Dauphin county. No. 219 Market street. 

AUDITOR GENERAL. 

Justus F. Temple, Greene county. United States, Sixth and 
Market streets. 

STATE TREASURER. 

Henry Rawle, Erie county. Lochiel, Third and Market 
streets; 

SECRETARY OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS. 

William M'Candless, Philadelphia. Bolton's, Second street. 

Chief Clerk. 
J. Simpson Africa, Huntingdon county. Bolton's, Second 
street. 

SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION AND SUPERINTENDENT OF' 
SOLDIERS'' ORPHAN SCHOOLS. 

J. P. Wickersham, Lancaster county. State Capital, Third 
and Walnut streets. 

DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT OF COMMON SCHOOLS. 

Henry Houck, Lebanon county. Keystone, Third and State 
streets. 

ADJUTANT GENERAL. 

James W. Latta, Philadelphia. Lochiel, Third and Market 
streets. 

DEPARTMENT OF INStJRANCE. 

J. Montgomery Forster, Commissioner, Dauphin county. 
No. 303 South Front street 

STATE LIBRARIAN. 

0. H. Miller, Allegheny county. No. 327 Herr street. 

SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC PRINTING. 

J. W. Jones, Dauphin county. ^ South Third street, above- 
Chestnut. 



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SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS. 

William H. Patterson, Juniata county. No. 708 North 
Third street. 

STATE PRINTER. 

B. F. Meyers, Bedford county. No. 224 Chestnut street. 



EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT. 

Governor — John F. Hartranft, Montgomery county. Execu- 
tive Mansion, Front street. 

Private Secretary — Chester N. Farr, Jr., Reading. Lochiel. 

Executive Clerk — Warren B. Keely, Berks county. Lochiel. 

Messenger — J. C. Delaney, Luzerne county. 1241 North 
Second street. 

Page — James Delaney, Northampton county. 630 Hen st. 

BOARD OF PARDONS. 

Lieutenant Governor John Latta. 
Secretary of the Commonwealth M. S'. Quay. 
- Attorney General George Lear. 
Secretary of Internal Affairs William M'Candless. 
Recorder — Chester N. Farr, Jr. 
Clerk— W. B. Keely. 

OFFICE OF SECRETARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH. 

Secretary — M. S. Quay, Beaver county. Lochiel. 
Deputy Secretary — John B. Linn, Centre county. Miss Al- 
len's, No. 404 North Third street. 

Chief Clerk — Thomas M'Camant, Blair county. No. 301 
Forster street. 

Clerks—^. F. Chandler, Dauphin county. Bolton's. 

S. M. Fridy, Lancaster county. State Capital. 
J. M. Jordan, Bedford county. No. Ill N. Third st. 
E. T. Beatty, Perry county. No. 512 North Third 

street. 
Lane S. Hart, Montgomery county. No. 236 Boas 

street. 
H. H. Hartranft, Lycoming county. No. 410 North 
Third street. 



74 

Clerks — M. N. Cutler, Erie county. Crescent street, Alli- 
son's Hill. 
George Holmes, Dauphin county. 212 Pine street. 
Messenger — B. P. Thompson, Montgomery county. Corner 
Forster and Grand streets. 

ATTORNEY GENARAL's DEPARTMENT. 

Attorney General — George Lear, Bucks county. Lochiel. 

Deputy Attorney General — LymanD. Gilbert, Dauphin coun- 
ty. No. 219 Market street. 

Clerk — George F. Ross, Mifflin county. No. 303 Briggs 
street. 

AUDITOR general's DEPARTMENT. 

Auditor General — Justus F. Temple, Greene county. United 
States. 

Chief Clerk~a. W. G. Waddell, Greene county. 302 Boas 
street. 

Clerks— W. J. Bayard, Greene county. United States. 

B. M. Nead, Franklin county. United States. 
W. J. Jackman, Juniata county. United States. 

C. I. Markell, Washington county. United States. 
A. J. Sanderson, Lancaster county. United States. 
C. F. Warden, Westmoreland county. Bolton's. 
Joseph G. Garard, Fayette county. United States. 
W. L. Sansom, Indiana county. No. 714 North 

Third street. 
Walter Dieffenbach, Columbia county. No. 311 

North Second street. 
W. H. Reel, Allegheny county. No. 225 Herr 

street. 
John M'Murray, Jefferson county. 610 Boas st. 
Mght Watchman — Alex. Beltzhoover, Allegheny county. 
Keystone. 

Messenger — J. B. Temple, Greene county. United States. 

DEPARTMENT OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS. 

Secretary of Internal Affairs — William M'Candless, Phila- 
delphia. United States. 

Chief Clerk — J. Simpson Africa, Huntingdon county. Bol- 
ton's. 



75 

Chief of the Bureau of Industrial Statistics — W. Hayes 
Grier, Lancaster county. United States. 

Clerks — Hamilton Alricks, Jr., Dauphin county. Bolton's. 
James Atwell, Philadelphia. G. W. P. Davis', 

Front and North streets. 
A. D. Boileau, Philadelphia. G. W. P. Davis', 

Front and North streets. 
John VV. Brown, Dauphin county. No. 210 North 

Second street. 
John Christy, Blair county. 238 North street - 
S. Larkin Fairlamb, Delaware county. Two-and-a- 

Half street, near Briggs. 
R. H. Forster, Centre county. No. 118 West 

State street 
S. George, Lycoming county. No. 216 North st. 
D. W. Henderson, Philadelphia. Jones' House. 
Richard M'Sherry, Adams county. Bolton's. 
T. O'Leary, Jr , Allegheny county. No. 907 N. 

Third street. 
A. J. Randall, Schuylkill county. State Capital. 
John L. Sexton, Jr., Tioga county. No. 228 Herr 

street. 
N. C. Wilson, Mifflin county. Lochiel. 
Messengers— Michael Bradley, Philadelphia. Davis', Front 
and North streets. 
G. W. P. Davis, Front and No'rth streets. 
Night Watchman — John P. Ryon. Davis', Front and North 
streets. 

TREASURY DEPARTMENT. 

State Treasurer — Henry Rawle, Erie county. Lochiel. 
Cashier — Wm. B. Hart, Montgomery county. No. 1009 
North Third street. 

Clerks— G. W. Colton, Erie county. Jones' House. 

G. E. Hoffman, Northumberland county. West 

State street. 
Joseph P. Egan, Allegheny county. No. lit 
Washington avenue. 
Messenger — Wm. Searfauss, Dauphin county. Regina st. 
Night. TFa^c/iman— Thomas A. Dent, Sullivan county. Six- 
teenth and Walnut streets. 



76 

SCHOOL DEPARTMENT. 

SupeiHntendent Public Instruction — James P. Wickersham^ 
Lancaster county. State Capital. 

Deputy SupVs Common Schools — Henry Houck, Lebanon co. 

Rob't Curr}^, Allegheny co. 

Financial Clerk — W. A. Lindsey, Cumberland county. 
United States. 

Statistical Clerk — Jahn T. Boyle, Schuylkill county. Two- 
and-a-Half street, near Boas. 

Recording Clerk — Joseph N. Beistle, Crawford county. 
Front street, near Boas. 

Messenger — R. A. Lucas, Centre county. No. 911 North 
Third street. 

soldiers' orphan school department. 

Superintendent — James P. Wickersham, Lancaster county. 
State Capital. 

Male Inspector — C. Cornforth, M'Kean county. Corner 
Front and Herr. 

Female Inspector — Mrs. E. E. Hutter, No.~ 614 Race street, 
Philadelphia. 

Chief Clerk — James L. Paul, Westmoreland county. No. 
609 North Front street. 

. Clerk — Edmund R. Sutton, Indiana county. Sixth street 
above Boas. 

ADJUTANT general's DEPARTMENT. 

Adjutant General — James W. Latta, Philadelphia. Lochiel. 

Assistant Adjutant General — D. Stanley Hassinger, Phila- 
delphia. 

Chief Clerk — George C. Kelle}^, Union county. Corner 
Second street and Herr. 

Recording and Pay Department Clerk — Joseph Lincss, No. 
135 Herr street. 

Ordnance (7Zer^— William K. Russell, Dauphin county. 
No. 303 Briggs street. 

Keeper of State Arsenal — C. W. Diven, Lawrence county. 
Fifteenth street, near Arsenal. 

Messenger — Thomas Numbers, York county. No. 317 Mar- 
ket street. 



77 

NATIONAL GUARD. 

Commander-in-Chief— GovevnoY John F. Hartranft. 

Adjutant General, Paymaster General and Acting Quarter- 
Master General — Major General James W. Latta. 

Assistant Adjutant General — Colonel D. Stanley Hassinger, 
. Inspector General — Brigadier General John D. Bertolette. 

Judge Advocate General — Brigadier General Geo. F. Smith. 

Surgeon General — ^Brigadier General Lewis W. Read. 

Aides-de-Camp — Colonels John W. Schall, John B. Comp- 
ton, Charles S. Greene, Jacob D. Laciar, Joseph F. Tobias, J. 
K. Haffey, William R. Hartshorne, George H. North, Thomas 
M. Walker, Aaron K. Dunkel, Charles J. Arms, George W. 
Grant, William W. Brown, Edward B. Young, Stanley Wood- 
ward, Richard R, Campion, William L. Elkins, P. Lacey God- 
dard. 

INSURAIS'CE DEPARTMENT. 

Insurance Commissioner — J. M. Forster, Dauphin county. 
No. 30.3 South Front street. 

Deputy Insurance Commissioner — L. R. Boggs, Huntingdon 
county. No. 25 North FrontJ street. 

Clerks — R. A. Hazleton, Bradford county. No. 9 South 
Market Square. 
Smith Curtis, Beaver county. No. 253 North street. 
Messenger — H. B. Weand, Montgomery county. No. 245 
Briggs street. 

STATE LIBRARY. 

State Librarian — 0. H. Miller, Westmoreland county. No. 
22^ Herr street. 

Assistant Librarian — Joseph R. Orwig, Union county. No. 
313 North Second street. 

SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC PRINTING. 

Joshua W. Jones, Dauphin county. Third street above 
Chestnut. 

SUPERINTENDENT PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS. 

Wm. II. Patterson, Juniata county. No. 108 North Third 
street. 



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BOARD OF PUBLIC CHARITIES. 

President — G. Dawson Coleman, Lebanon, Lebanon county. 
General Agent and Secretary — Diller Luther, Reading, Berks 
county. 

Statistician — A. J. Ourt, No. T37 Walnut st., Philadelphia. 

FISHERY COMMISSIONERS. 

Benjamin L. Hewit, Blair county. 
Howard J. Reeder, Northampton county. 
James Duffy, Lancaster coucty. 

STATE PRINTER. 

B. F. Meyers, corner Third and Locust streets. 
Manager — James R. Piper, Franklin House. 

LEGISLATIVE RECORD. 

Publisher-^ Ghdiile^ H. Bergner, Third and Market streets. 

BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF SECOND GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. 

Governor John F. Hatranft, ex-officio President of the Board. 

Secretary of the Board — John B. Pearse, Philadelphia. 

State Geologist — J . Peter Lesley, Philadelphia. 
Ario Pardee, Hazleton. John B. Pearse, Philadelphia. 

Wm. A. Ingham, Philadelphia. R. V. Wilson, M. D., Clearfield. 
Henry S. Eckert, Reading. D. J. Morrell, Johnstown. 
Henry M'Cormick, Harrisburg. Henry W. Oliver, Pittsburg. 
James Macfarlane, Towanda. Samuel Q. Brown, Pleasantville. 



DAUPHIN COUNTY OFFICERS. 

President Judge — John J. Pearson. 

Associate Laiv Judge — R. M. Henderson. 

Associate Judges — Isaac Mumma, John D. Snyder. 

Sheriff— WiWmm W. Jennings. 

Deputy Sheriff— 3. M. Eyster. 

Prothonotary — Thomas G. Fox. 

Clerk — William Mitchell. 

Treasurer — Isaac B. Nissley. 

Register — Simon Duey. 

Recorder — John Fox. 

Gleih — Simon G. Young. 

District Attorney — John B. M'Pherson. 



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County Commissioners — Samuel M'llhany, Eli Swab, A. 
Boyd Martin. 

County Solicitor — John S. Detweiler. 

Commissioners^ Clerks — Thomas Strohm, Christian A. Miller. 

Coroner — James Porter. 

Directors of the Poor — Jacob Umholtz, John C. Lyme, J. 
Amos Fisher. 

Clerk — J. J. Rebman. 



HARRISBtJRG CITY OFFICERS. 

Mayor — J, D. Patterson. 

City Controller — L. R. Metzgar. 

City Solicitor — T. S. Hargest. 

City Treasurer — David Ilerr. 

Common Council — J. D. Sprout, J. J. Zimmerman, N. R. 
Miller, George H. Tattnell, Bartholomew De Yout, John A. 
Hooker, William H. Cleckner, Abram Myers, W. W. Boyer, 
Benjamin G. Peters, Alfred Pancake, John T. Ensminger, Geo. 

E. Reed, Henry Gilbert, J. DeHaven, J. J. Hargest, Gillard 
Dock, W. H. H. Sieg, J. A. Slentz, E. 0. Dare, George Zol- 
linger, W. 0. Bishop, J. J. Reese, J. L. Dawson, H. C, Dem- 
ming, J. H. Santo, Charles Wilhelm, J. W. M'Crory, Wm. 
Kuhn, John Young, L. Lehman, John Beatty, George White- 
man, J. M. Bender, Samuel H. Kautz. 

Select Council — William Sheesley, Wm. K. Cowden, Jacob 

F. Haehnlen, William Calder, Joseph Strominger, S. S. Ens- 
minger, John A. Gramm, L. Chrisman, H. J. Forney. 

Chief of Police — H. A. Hoopes. 



AUentown . . 


DISTANC 

Miles. 

90 

132 

21 


ES FROM HARRIS 

Miles. 
Carlisle 18 


BURG TO 

Dauphin 

Derry 

Dnwningtown .... 


Miles. 

8 

13 


A.nnville . . . . 


Chambersburg 


52 
250 


73 




Id 85 

276 


Doylestown 

Driftwood 

Duncannon 


110 




Clark's Ferry 

Clearfield 


14 
159 


174 


Bedford 


106 

140 

199 


15 




Conemaugh 

Conewago 

Corry 


.... IBS 

18 
.... 305 


107 




Ebensburg 

Emporium 

Erie 

FranKlin 

Crallitziu 


158 


Bloomsburg 
Brookville .. 


78 

236 


193 


Coudersport 

Cresson 


.... 210 
147 


342 


Butler 


300 


373 


Cameron — 


187 


Dauville 


65 


144 



80 



Georgetown 37 

G-ettysburg 70 

Greencastle 63 

Greensburg 228 

Haserstown, Mtl 74 

Halifax 21 

.Hanover Junction 40 

Holliclavsburg 140 

Honesdale 165 

Humnielstown 10 

Huntingdon 98 

Indiana 215 

Jersey Shore 106 

Joliustown 171 

Kane 247 

Kingston 119 

Kittanning 293 

Lackawanna 130 

Lancaster 35 

Latrobe 208 

Lebanon 26 

Lewisburg 65 

Lewistown 61 

Loclc Haven ' 120 

Marysville ..., 8 

Mauch Chunk 120 

Meadville • 346 

Mecliauicsburg 9 

Media ...,; 120 

Mercer 375 



M'Veytown 73 

Middlebnrg 60 

Middletown 9 

Mifflin 49 

Miffliuburg 75 

Millersburg 26 

Millerstown 33 

Miiroy 74 

Milton 68 

Miunequa 134 

Mt. Joy 24 

Mt. XJiiiou 86 

Muncy 82 

Myerstown 32 

New Berlin 7() 

New Bloonifield 33 

Newcastle 296 

Newport 28 

Newville 30 

Norristowu 94 

N ortliuiuberland 56 

Oakville 35 

Orwigsburg 82 

Farlvsburg 62 

Fhiladeipllia 106 

rii03nixville 84 

Pittsljurg . 249 

Fittston 127 

Plymouth 116 

Fort Clinton 74 



Miles. 

Pottstown 72 

Pottsville 89 

Reading 54 

Kenova 146 

Eidgewajr 224 

Schuylkill Haven «5 

Scranton 136 

Seliiisgrove 50 

Shippeusburg 41 

Smetbport ' 244 

Somerset 200 

Slate Line, North 162 

S tate L ine, South 68 

Sunbury , 54 

Tamaqua 94 

Treverton Junction. . . 41 

Tyrone 118 

Uniontown 320 

Warren 276 

Washington 280 

Washi ngron, D . C . . . . 1 25 

WatsontowH 72 

Waynesboro' 300 

West Chester 90 

Wellsboro' 177 

William sport 93 

Wil ke sbarre 122 

Womelsdorf 39 

Wvoming 124 

York 28 



DISTANCES FROM NEW YORK CITY TO 



Miles. 

Adrian, Midi 775 

Akron, Ohio 610 

Albany, N. Y 143 

Alexandria, Va — .... 238 

Allegheny, Pa 434 

Allentown, Pa 92 

Alliance, Ohio 515 

Alton, 111 1060 

Annapolis, Md 222 

Ann Harbor, Mich 716 

Atchison, Ka 1368 

Atlanta, Ga 1018 

Auburn, N . Y 328 

Augusta, Me 407 

Augusta, Ga 887 

Baltimore, Md 188 

Bangor, Me 482 

Bath, Me 382 

Baton Kouge, La 1320 

Belfast, Me 424 

Bellefontaine, Ohio 658 

Binghamton, N . Y . . . . 215 

Bloomington, III 1037 

Boston, Mass 236 

Bridgeport, Conn 59 

Bristol, R.I >... 215 

Bucyrus, Ohio 632 

Buffalo, N. Y 433 

Burlington, N. J 74 

Burlington, Iowa 1122 

Cambridge, Mass 239 

Camden, N.J 91 

Canandaigua, N. Y ... 377, 

Carson City, Nev 2800 

Charleston, S. C 874 

Charleston. Mass 235 

Cliattanooga, Tenn — 980 

Chicago, 111 911 

Cincinnati, OMo 744 

Cleveland, Ohio 581 

t'olumbia, S. C 744 

Columbus, Ohio 624 

Concord, N. H 308 

Covington, Ky 745 

Cumberland, Md 364 

Davenport, Iowa , 1093 

Dayton, Ohio 804 

Denver, Colorado 1980 

Des Moines, Iowa 1251 



Miles. 

Detroit, Mich 679 

Dubuque, Iowa 1100 

Dunkirk, N. Y 400 

Easton, Pa 75 

Elmira, N . Y 274 

Erie, Fa 508 

Evansville, Ind 1021 

Fort Kearnej', Neb . , . 1598 

Fort Wayne, Ind 763 

Fredericksburg, Va .. 296 

Galena, III 1083 

Galesburg, 111 1076 

Galveston, Texas 1900 

Harrisburg, Fa 182 

Hartford, Conn 112 

Indianapolis, Ind 838 

Jackson, Miss 1498 

Jefferson City. Mo. . . . 1210 

Kalamazoo, Mich 822 

Knoxville, Tenn 868 

Lafayette, Ind 903 

Lansing, Mich 785 

Lawrence, Kan 1393 

Lexington, Ky 840 

Lexington, Mo 1554 

Little Rock, Ark 1430 

Louisville,. Ky 900 

Lowell, Mass 261 

Lynchburg, Va 404 

Macon, Ga 1121 

Madison, Wis 1049 

Memphis, Tenn 1289 

Meriden, Conn 94 

Millidgeville, Ga 1100. 

Milwaukee, Wis 996 

Mobile, Ala 1379 

Montgomery, Ala 1193 

Moutpelier, Vt.. 454 

Nashua, N. H 275 

Nashville, Tenn 1085 

New Albany, Ind 903 

Newark, N. J 9 

New Brunswick, N.J, 82 

Newburg, N . Y 53 

New Haven, Conn 76 

New Orleans, La 1550 

Newport, Ky 744 

Newport, R. I 162 

Norwalk, Conn 45 



Omaha, Neb 

Oswego, N. Y 

Faterson, N . J 

Peoria, 111 

Petersbtirg, Va 

Philadelphia, Fa 

Pittsburg, Fa 

Portland, Me 

Providence, R. I 

Qttincy, 111 

Racine, AVis 

Hahway, N. J 

Raliegh, N. C 

Reading, Pa 

Richmond, Va 

Rochester, N. Y 

Rock Island, 111 

Roxbury, Mass 

Sacremento, Cal 

St. Joseph, Mo 

St. Louis, Mo 

St. Paul, Minn 

Salem, Mass 

Salt Lake City, Utah, 
San Francisco, Cal — 

Sandusky, Ohio 

Savannah, Ga 

Scranton, Pa 

Springfield, 111 

Springfield, Mass 

Springfield, Ohio 

Staunton, Va 

Syracuse, N . Y 

Tallahassa, Fla 

Terre Haute, Ind 

Toledo, Ohio 

Trenton, N. J 

Troy, N. Y 

Utica, N. Y 

Vicksburg, Miss 

Washington, D. C — 
W^heeling, W. Va .... 

Wilmington, Del 

W^ilmington, N. C... 

Worcester, Mass 

Xenia, Ohio 

Yanton, Dak 

"^ oungstown, Ohio — 
Z ane sville, Ohio 



Hies. 

1455. 

237 

17 

1072 
378 
88 
431 
344 
193 

1176 
976 
20 
669 
128 
356 
451 

1093 
238 

2900 

1385 

1084 

1441 
252 

2410 

3038 
642 
974 
142 

1062 
138 
828 
486 
302 

1190 
912 
742 
58 
148 
249 

1542 
230 
522 
116 
734 
192 
685 

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SmiEES VISITl TIE CITI 



CONTAINING A 

Descriptive Tour of the City and Capitol Build- 
ings, History of the Capital City of Penn- 
sylvania, Historical Narratives, Popula- 
tion and Elections of State, County 
and City, List of Societies, Table 
of Distances, and other val- 
uahle information. 



By J. R. ORWIC, 

Ai^sIfeTA^^T State Librariais'. 




HARRISBURG: 
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Harrtsbukg is the Capital of Pennsylvania— located on the banks 
of the Susquehanna, one hundred miles from Philadelphia. 

The mountain and valley scenery about Harrisburg is varied and 
magnificent. 

Traveling to Philadelphia from the west, Harrisburg is a desirable 
stopping off place. It gives the traveler rest, an opportunity to view 
the Capitol of our State, and enables one to reach Philadelphia by 
daylight. . 

Traveling west from Philadelphia, stopping off at Harrisburg en- 
ables trav^elers to go over the mountains to Pittsburg by daylight. 

Bolton's Hotel is a large, ^'rell established and comfortable house. 
In the centre of the City, and is the only hotel in Harrisburg running 
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Location free from noise, smoke ami coufasion of trains; 
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Two editions are now published, one in the morning and 
another in the evening. 

Price of morning edition to city subscribers, 12 cents per 
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Price of evening edition to city subsciibers, 10 cents per 
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